A defendant accused of viciously attacking a homeless man in downtown Lawrence has been ordered to stand trial, although plea negotiations are underway. The 49-year-old man testified that the defendant, Shaun Donovan Bernie, 33, attacked him from behind last fall, causing significant injuries ...
The Watkins Museum’s first new exhibition of 2026 will celebrate 50 years of a key research center on the University of Kansas campus. The museum announced in a press release Wednesday that its first exhibition of the year, The Hall Center for the Humanities: Celebrating 50 Years, will open ...
State law requires residents of a county to be notified of a lot of different legal matters that are underway at any given time. That includes pending foreclosures of homes, new ordinances proposed by local governments, legal name changes of your neighbors, and even the sales that dispose of ...
After the city reduced its funding award to the Douglas County Housing Stabilization Collaborative, the organization that works to prevent evictions and housing instability is proposing a new need-based assistance model for 2026. The Housing Stabilization Collaborative, HSC, was created during ...
Before Lawrence city leaders approved a $3.15 million funding agreement with the Lawrence Community Shelter on Tuesday, Mayor Brad Finkeldei thought back to what this meeting would have looked like a few years ago. There was a time, he said, when “we would put the LCS contract on the agenda ...
TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly says Kansans wouldn’t have elected her if she were the type of politician who screamed the loudest and relied on bullying others to get her way. She said during her annual State of the State speech Tuesday night it was a certainty Kansas would have suffered in ...
