County Clerk Jamie Shew has been elected to serve as the chair of a national board that helps guide a federal elections agency. Shew will be the first representative from Kansas to serve as the chair to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission Standards Board, which assists the U.S. Election ...
As Douglas County leaders held their first discussion on regulations for data centers and similar developments, several questioned whether the county’s infrastructure could even support them at all. As the Journal-World reported, this July will mark two years since county commissioners ...
A group of middle school students will host an art-based “pop-up shop” this weekend to raise funds to prevent deforestation and drive reforestation efforts. The pop-up shop, which is hosted by three students from Limestone Community School — a private, Lawrence-based alternative ...
For years now, residents of University Place have been afraid of losing their neighborhood’s history. And earlier this year, Pam Burkhead said, that fear became more real than ever. The neighborhood to the southeast of the University of Kansas campus was worried that Lawrence’s new land ...
An 18-year-old man was arrested Wednesday in connection with a weekend shooting that left one woman dead and 22 other people wounded during a nighttime party beside an Oklahoma lake, police said. Jaylan A. Davis was arrested on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon in the wake of Sunday ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick appeared Wednesday before a House committee investigating sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, trying to explain to lawmakers his contact with the financier after Epstein's 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from an underage girl. The ...
