TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — A ruptured chemical tank billowed a white plume into the air for hours Wednesday, forcing hundreds of residents out of their homes due to the potentially toxic leak and the possibility of an explosion. More than 50,000 people in Toledo, Ohio, were advised to stay indoors ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to let it resume building a border wall project through the Big Bend region of Texas. The government filed an emergency appeal asking the justices to lift a lower court decision halting construction. That ruling ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to allow the Trump administration to immediately enforce new medical restrictions for transgender people in prison. The decision leaves in place a lower-court block on the policy. It was adopted after an executive order from President ...
Story updated at 4:05 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 21: The man arrested in Sunday's homicide in downtown Lawrence has now been charged with second-degree murder in Douglas County District Court. The charge was filed Wednesday morning against Daileon Maurice Thomas, 23, of Olathe, who is accused of ...
News and notes from around town: Last December, we reported on the National Weather Service's agreement to operate out of a new building at KU Innovation Park, but we didn't know then when that building would be complete. Now, the forecast is clearer: Expect it to be done sometime in ...
I can’t seem to get Costco off my mind. The thoughts are about $80 million deep. As I wrote last week, that’s a conservative estimate of how much money the store — which opens in northwest Lawrence on Oct. 29 — will send to the state of Kansas in sales tax dollars over the next 20 ...
