Story updated at 4:18 p.m. Thursday: TOPEKA — Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly spelled out three reasons Thursday afternoon for her mandate that Kansans wear masks in public to slow the spread of COVID-19: She has “no doubt” it will save lives, it is the only way to safely keep the economy open ...
Olathe — A Missouri man was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison for a 2018 shooting outside a Kansas elementary school that killed one man and left another paralyzed. Anthony Grable, 34, of Kansas City, Mo., will not be eligible for parole for 50 years, WDAF-TV reported. He pleaded ...
The Douglas County Commission will wait a week before considering a company’s request to expand a quarry near Eudora. The commissioners heard a request on Wednesday to amend a conditional use permit for Hamm Quarry, located at 2364 North 1200 Road, which wants to expand its extraction ...
Founding a Lawrence institution was not on the mind of Don “Red Dog” Gardner when he helped start a summer-conditioning program 36 years ago for Lawrence High School athletes. “Oh no,” he said. “That never crossed my mind. We had six athletes the first year.” Nonetheless, the ...
Lawrence police officers discovered a patrol car vandalized with multiple instances of graffiti by an unknown party, according to a department spokesman. Officers discovered the vehicle, parked at the Judicial and Law Enforcement Center, 111 E. 11th St., around 6 a.m. Tuesday, department ...
Leaders at the local homeless shelter say that although they are once again accepting new residents, the pandemic continues to limit the shelter’s ability to house the homeless. The Lawrence Community Shelter, 3655 E. 25th St., stopped accepting new residents in March because of the ...
LEAVENWORTH — A Leavenworth hospital will close this fall because of costs associated with the coronavirus, the hospital owner said. Saint Luke’s Cushing Hospital’s inpatient unit will close July 17 and the entire hospital will close Oct. 1, the Saint Luke’s Health System announced ...
Kansas in the last 10 days has seen a “significant increase” in new COVID-19 cases and is taking “another step in the wrong direction,” the state’s top health officer said Wednesday. Since last Monday, the state has confirmed 2,547 new cases of the deadly respiratory virus, said Dr. ...
Updated at 4:35 p.m. Wednesday Just before the Fourth of July holiday, Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health has announced a health order to close bars and nightclubs for two weeks, beginning Friday, in light of the COVID-19 crisis. The official order will be issued Thursday by Douglas ...
A new panel designed to handle the most complex rules in collegiate sports has officially agreed to hear the University of Kansas' case surrounding serious pay-for-play allegations in the men's basketball program, the sport's governing body announced Wednesday. Over a month after KU's case ...
A Johnson County nonprofit is expanding its program to test asymptomatic people for the COVID-19 virus in Lawrence next week. Lenexa-based Heart to Heart International will operate free testing sites for basically anyone in the community, Mark Gleeson, a Lawrence resident who works for the ...
Story updated at 8 p.m. Wednesday: A judge on Wednesday lowered by $250,000 the $750,000 bond that has kept a man in jail five years as his murder case is pending in Douglas County District Court. By 6:45 p.m., 24-year-old Rontarus Washington Jr. had bonded out of the Douglas County Jail and ...
A Ford Fusion with six people on board crossed the center line in a crash that killed all six occupants, according to the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office’s crash report released to the Journal-World Wednesday morning. The five family members and a longtime family friend had driven close to ...
MISSION — Gov. Laura Kelly's planned order requiring Kansas residents to wear masks to slow the spread of the coronavirus could be toothless in many parts of the state because counties can exempt themselves and even those that don't might not enforce it. Officials in some counties already ...
Investigations are ongoing into some incidents of vehicles driving through crowds at protests and of a banner found Saturday near South Park, according to Lawrence police. In a statement to media on Monday, the Lawrence Police Department said officers were investigating two incidents of ...
Every morning at 6:02 a.m., Kathy Hanks and Amy Bickel would wake up and log on to their computers. In the same Google Document, the women would write in the morning hours from their respective homes in Lawrence and Burrton, Kan. Hanks and Bickel, former colleagues at The Hutchinson News, ...
Liberty, Mo. — Kansas City officials on Tuesday voted to strip the name of one of the city's most influential developers from a city fountain and street because he barred Blacks and Jews from the neighborhoods he developed in the 1900s. The process of removing J.C. Nichols’ name started in ...
Story updated at 6:01 p.m. Tuesday: As a protest that is occupying a block of Massachusetts Street continues into its fourth day, the City of Lawrence says it will keep the road closed "at least" through Wednesday. Protesters have been occupying a portion of Massachusetts Street that runs ...
Prosecutors have asked a judge not to grant a request to lower the bond for a man who has been in jail for more than five years, arguing that the coronavirus pandemic is not as big a concern locally as it is elsewhere, and that after years of hearings and a trial, the court has chosen to ...
The University of Kansas has decided to give its instructors more flexibility to decide whether they’re comfortable with teaching in-person courses in the fall, just days after hundreds of faculty members signed a letter protesting KU’s policies related to COVID-19 and the reopening ...
