A top Kansas academic administrator and former president of a private, Catholic university has been chosen as the next chief executive of the Kansas Board of Regents, which oversees KU and the state’s other public higher education institutions. The Regents on Tuesday voted to name Jennifer ...
Fifty years after the O’Connell family donated its ranch to serve vulnerable youth, the O’Connell Children’s Shelter marked the milestone by celebrating the completion of a renovated home designed to expand crisis care for children. The O’Connell Children’s Shelter actually ...
Updated at 3:50 p.m. Tuesday, July 28, 2026 A 50-year-old man was charged Tuesday with a felony after passersby accused him of masturbating in public in downtown Lawrence. The man, Jimmy Lee Hadl, of Lawrence, was arrested early Monday evening at Ninth and Vermont streets. According to the ...
A 39-year-old man accused of rape and other crimes was declared incompetent to stand trial Tuesday in Douglas County District Court. In April, a psychologist at Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center, Sara Godinez, determined that defendant Kevin Renee Robertson was competent to stand trial ...
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. — The son of Chiefs assistant coach Eric Bieniemy has been arrested and charged with the shooting of his mother, Mia Bieniemy, the wife of the Kansas City offensive coordinator, authorities in Virginia said Monday. The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office said deputies ...
The Lawrence school board is expected to approve a new policy in August to comply with a bell-to-bell ban on cellphones in schools that's mandated by state law. On Monday, school board members had their first reading of the district’s new policy for wireless electronic communication ...
