Lawrence Arts Center leaders are requesting special tax revenue to help the center purchase a downtown property to create an outdoor space for public art. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will consider a request from the Arts Center to move forward with a 2012 ...
City leaders will soon consider designs for Lawrence’s first bike boulevards as well as a change that would significantly increase the project’s budget. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will consider approving the final conceptual designs for the 21st Street ...
The City of Lawrence will soon host a public reception for outgoing City Manager Tom Markus. The reception will take place Tuesday from 5 to 5:45 p.m. in the lobby of City Hall, 6 E. Sixth St., according to a city news release. The reception will fall between the presentation of Markus' ...
Story updated at 6:54 p.m. Monday, June 17: Two reticent witnesses testified Monday morning at the murder trial of Anthony L. Roberts Jr. One of the witnesses was facing the man who allegedly shot him twice and fatally shot his cousin, to whom he crawled after the shooting but found ...
Some low-interest loans — and even some grants — are now available for homeowners, renters and businesses that are facing unexpected costs related to last month’s tornado. President Donald Trump’s decision last week to grant a disaster declaration for seven counties hit by a May 28 ...
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. Sunday to 6 a.m. Monday and includes 159 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
Audio-Reader is asking for people to dust off their old vinyl LPs and other items to benefit a worthy cause. The University of Kansas program, a reading and information service for blind, visually impaired, and print disabled individuals, is accepting donations of used records, CDs, gently ...
Wichita — The unregistered gun silencers, each stamped “Made in Kansas,” were arranged in a display case at a military surplus store in a rural Kansas town. Beside them was a copy of a Kansas gun law signed a year earlier by then-Gov. Sam Brownback that purports to prevent federal ...
The University of Kansas cut the amount of funding the academic institution will send to its athletics program next school year. But former faculty leaders say the cut is still not enough. Recently the Kansas Athletics Inc. board of directors approved a 2020 fiscal year budget, which begins in ...
The owner of the Queen Anne cottage at 1042 Rhode Island St. admits that sometimes the house has been tough to love. Anne Underwood’s 1893 house gets a lot of compliments, but it in turn requires a lot of nurturing from her and her partner, Rodney Troth. On a recent morning, the doors of ...
After taking the lead with a monster second round at famed Pebble Beach on Friday, former Kansas golf standout Gary Woodland kept the lead to the end, finishing the job Sunday afternoon by winning the first major title of his career. All Woodland had to do to win was hold off two-time ...
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. Saturday to 6 a.m. Sunday and includes 224 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
Julie Arenson has always struggled to ask for help. Now her life depends on it. “It humbles me to my core to know that people are willing to donate an organ to help me lead a better and healthier life,” Arenson said. “I had to ask for help and that was hard.” Arenson, 60, of Lawrence, ...
If the NCAA sends allegations of major recruiting violations to the University of Kansas athletics program this summer, it may take at least a year before the case is resolved, an NCAA rules expert recently told the Journal-World. KU basketball fans began bracing for possible allegations after ...
Earlier this year, LMH Health welcomed a new chaplain, Robin Colerick-Shinkle, to the hospital family. Colerick-Shinkle has been serving churches for the past 12 years and has now joined the Lawrence community to be near her family. Traci Hoopingarner, vice president of clinical care and ...
Utility rate hikes proposed for 2020 would increase the average Lawrence household's bill to about $103 per month, and some city leaders are asking whether such a steep increase is actually necessary. City utility bills are made up of charges for water, solid waste and stormwater, and rates ...
All of the candidates in this year's Lawrence City Commission race except for incumbent Stuart Boley expressed opposition to recreation center entrance fees and the city's current sidewalk repair ordinance at a forum on Saturday. The forum, hosted at the Lawrence Arts Center and organized by ...
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. Friday to 6 a.m. Saturday and includes 252 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
Lawrence Mayor Lisa Larsen directed — and later deleted — a tweet at President Donald Trump, calling him a "f---ing idiot" regarding his statements on a recent immigration agreement with Mexico. The tweet was up for less than a day, and Larsen told the Journal-World that she still felt ...
Family, friends and colleagues of retiring Douglas County District Court Judge Paula Martin attended a reception in her honor Friday at the old county courthouse. Martin, whose announced retirement date is Saturday, has been on the bench 25 years and presided over some of Lawrence’s most ...