Douglas County staff are recommending revisions to funding agreements with community organizations, including changing payment and reporting requirements. The county uses two different types of agreements to outline its expectations and restrictions for distributing funding to community ...
A former award-winning paraprofessional in the Lawrence school district pleaded not guilty Tuesday to multiple child sex crimes. Caleb Rahmeier, in a third amended complaint filed in August, has been charged with aggravated indecent liberties with a child, sexual exploitation of a child, and ...
A repeat felon sighed with relief and raised his shackled hands in prayerful gratitude Tuesday as a Douglas County judge sentenced him to probation, despite his having the worst criminal history score possible under the Kansas Sentencing Guidelines. Judge Stacey Donovan told defendant Sean ...
HUTCHINSON — The owner of a south-central Kansas bakery did not expect a Facebook post she made last Thursday to go viral and end up featured on the New York Times homepage on Sunday. Holly Thomas, the owner of Holly’s Sweet Treats on Main Street in Hutchinson, made a post about a $678 ...
Operating losses at Hilltop Child Development Center were approaching $1 million in the last two years, yet more than $1 million in reserves remained in Hilltop accounts that potentially could help the struggling center, financial records show. The documents reviewed by the Journal-World are ...
A former federal worker and a former City of Lawrence employee are set to face off against an incumbent Republican congressman this election season in Kansas’ 1st District. The 1st District includes all of the City of Lawrence, which is its largest urban area, but none of the rest of Douglas ...
