WASHINGTON — Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche went to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to try to quell bipartisan frustration over the Justice Department's handling of millions of files related to Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking investigation. The country's top ...
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers appear far from ending a funding lapse at the Department of Homeland Security even as the president's nominee to run the department, Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma, pleaded with colleagues Wednesday to resolve the impasse. Democrats, for more than a ...
WASHINGTON — Markwayne Mullin, the White House pick for homeland security secretary, made a case to fellow senators Wednesday that he would be a steady hand for a department roiled by controversy under Kristi Noem, but signaled he would follow President Donald Trump's hard-line immigration ...
A defendant who was convicted of felony battery against a law enforcement officer has been ordered to serve two years of probation and to pay nearly $2,400 in restitution to the Douglas County Sheriff's Office. Judge Sally Pokorny sentenced Dustin Parrish on Wednesday to 11 months in prison ...
There are successful parties at the Lawrence Public Library, like the one that raised more than $400,000 for an outdoor performance space and various other projects earlier this month. And then there's "Deflategate." That what Kathleen Morgan, director of the Lawrence Public Library's Friends ...
A Lawrence library official says a new tutoring program designed to help adults improve their literacy and English skills in one-on-one meetings is “ready to go” after an initial launch this year. The Lawrence Public Library announced Friday in a press release it was offering free ...
