The Kansas Board of Regents approved a 15 percent pay raise for Regents President and CEO Blake Flanders during its Thursday board meeting. The pay raise comes at a time when state universities, including KU, are facing budget challenges. Regents leaders said compensation studies found ...
A former student-athlete is suing the University of Kansas because, she says, mold in her dorm room made her sick. The woman had a golf scholarship and moved into the on-campus Jayhawker Towers apartments in fall 2015, the beginning of her freshman year. Throughout September and October of ...
Though Lawrence city commissioners said they were sorry to hear City Manager Tom Markus’ announcement that he plans to resign, all said they are grateful for the changes he’s brought to City Hall. Markus, 67, announced Tuesday that he plans to resign in the spring of 2019, which will mark ...
MANHATTAN — Manhattan City Manager Ron Fehr says a flood over the Labor Day holiday weekend caused $17.2 million in structural damages in the city. Fehr told the Manhattan City Commission Tuesday that four commercial and eight residential properties suffered substantial damage — meaning ...
TOPEKA – The two major candidates in the 2nd District congressional race said Thursday that they have accepted invitations to three debates before the Nov. 6 general election. The only problem is, they aren’t the exact same list of debates. Republican Steve Watkins and Democrat Paul Davis ...
Eastern Lawrence is getting a new doctor’s office that will be run by Lawrence Memorial Hospital. The hospital has announced plans for LMH Health East Heights Family Care to open inside the Independence Inc. building near 20th Street and Haskell Avenue. The facility will have a family ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours. Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Wednesday to 6 a.m. Thursday and includes 266 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
TOPEKA — State universities in Kansas would see an $85 million funding increase over the next two years under a budget proposal that the Kansas Board of Regents approved on Thursday. Now, university leaders will have to wait and see whether state legislators will approve the request. ...
Cheyenne Hansen-Marlow did not know what to say Thursday morning. Superintendent Anthony Lewis and other Lawrence school district administrators surprised the school psychologist for Schwegler Elementary by showing up during the school day to announce that she had been chosen as the ...
Story updated at 4:32 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 20, 2018: The Kansas Bureau of Investigation is looking into alleged criminal activity by Baldwin City Police Department personnel, a KBI spokeswoman confirmed Thursday. The KBI's investigation began shortly before Police Chief Greg Neis resigned ...
TOPEKA — A committee formed at the direction of the Kansas Supreme Court has made 18 recommendations to improve the bond system in municipal courts. Brenda Stoss, municipal court judge from Salina and New Cambria, led the committee. She said municipal courts should be able to consider ...
Autumn weather in the Lawrence area is on its way. With an overnight cold front and a possible thunderstorm, temperatures in the area are expected to drop from the low 90s to the mid-70s on Friday, said Ariel Cohen, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Topeka. “The greatest ...
Today, Sept. 20 Free State Festival: Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire St. (unless otherwise noted). Partner Event: Citizen Jane:Battle for the City, 7-9 p.m., Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts St. Film: Meow Wolf: Origin Story, 8-10 p.m. Don't Miss: League of Women Voters Hot Topic: ...
The Lawrence Community Shelter will have to cut services to stay within its budget and is looking to its government and nonprofit partners to help determine how that should be done, shelter board members told community leaders Wednesday. At a joint meeting of the Douglas County Commission, ...
Lawrence mayor Stuart Boley's proposal to explore merging the city and county governments didn't go over well with Douglas County commissioners on Wednesday, but the county leaders said they were willing to review existing shared funding agreements with the city. The discussion occurred at a ...
Updated story - KBI investigating alleged criminal activity within Baldwin City Police Department Baldwin City Police Chief Greg Neis has resigned from the post he has held for the past nine years, a Baldwin City councilman said Wednesday. Councilman Tony Brown said the City Council ...
TOPEKA — The Kansas Board of Regents approved a pay raise on Wednesday for University of Kansas graduate teaching assistants, effective immediately. KU leaders and the union that represents the approximately 1,100 graduate teaching assistants at KU had spent the last several months in ...
The story that was the focus of many a book club in the early 1990s will soon take the stage in Lawrence. “The Bridges of Madison County” — originally released as a novel in 1992 and as a film in 1995 — makes its way to Lawrence in musical form for the first time this weekend, said ...
A number of agencies will participate in an emergency exercise Thursday morning at Lawrence Municipal Airport. The exercise, scheduled from 8:45 a.m. to noon, will simulate a transportation-related release of hazardous materials at the airport in North Lawrence, according to a press release ...