The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office will have more deputies patrolling on county roads and highways from this Saturday, Nov. 22, through Thanksgiving weekend, looking for people without seat belts and impaired and distracted drivers. A news release from the Sheriff's Office on Thursday said ...
A violent sex offender from New York accepted a plea agreement from prosecutors in Douglas County District Court on Thursday, avoiding a jury trial that was scheduled for next month. Kyle Elder, 35, pleaded no contest to two counts of aggravated abuse of a child, both felonies. Under the plea ...
As KU says it has a bed shortage for its record high enrollments, a Lawrence developer has an idea for how to turn approximately 40 bedrooms near the edge of campus into more than 300. But he’s going to need to turn a former garden center property in central Lawrence into a parking lot to ...
Former Douglas County District Attorney Suzanne Valdez always believed that Carrody Buchhorn murdered 9-month-old Oliver Ortiz at a Eudora day care in 2016, and an expert's report saying that Oliver died of natural causes didn't change her mind one bit, she testified Wednesday at Buchhorn's ...
Organizers looking to create a new park and trail system near Interstate 70 in Lawrence said it needs community support to make the dream reality, especially support from the city and county governments to make use of a small stretch of land to connect the system. Around 100 people gathered at ...
One child struggling with gender dysphoria was "slicing his arms and showering in the dark" before getting treatment, Dr. Angela Turpin said. Another "could not make eye contact with anyone" and constantly apologized. But that all changed when they received gender-affirming care, Turpin, of ...
