A parasite that causes a nasty intestinal illness has sickened thousands nationwide and hundreds in Kansas and Missouri, causing some people to consider locally grown produce options The parasite, called cyclospora, is spread by water or food contaminated by human waste. Federal officials are ...
At Tuesday’s Lawrence Opera Theatre rehearsal, Colin Bradt belts it out like only a classically trained tenor can. “Shoot for the moon, and we’ll go so far!” The show, “Brewed Ambition,” is about a coffee shop busboy who aspires to be the cafe’s top dog, but the lyrics seem ...
A federal judge has determined that the Lawrence school district must pay approximately $113,000 in attorney fees and costs to a group of student plaintiffs who demonstrated that the district violated the Kansas Open Records Act. The Kansas Open Records Act, commonly known as KORA, is a state ...
TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly voted Tuesday morning, offering a laughing “halleleujah” when she was asked about seeing a ballot that didn’t have her name on it. “I have told you that I would never run again for an office, and, other than school board, I’m going to stick to that,” ...
A new analysis written by a Douglas County commissioner argues that the city and county are not on track to meet the goal of reaching “functional zero” homelessness by 2028. The review was put together by County Commissioner Erica Anderson alongside John Ims, a Lawrence resident and ...
STARKE, Fla. (AP) — Florida on Tuesday became the first state in nearly a decade to carry out two executions in a single day, the last an 80-year-old man who was the second-oldest inmate known to receive a lethal injection in modern U.S. history. Hours earlier, the state executed a former ...
