The man arrested in Sunday's homicide in downtown Lawrence has now been charged with second-degree murder in Douglas County District Court. The charge was filed Wednesday morning against Daileon Maurice Thomas, 23, of Olathe, who is accused of killing Victor Gabriel Moreno, 23, early Sunday ...
News and notes from around town: Last December, we reported on the National Weather Service's agreement to operate out of a new building at KU Innovation Park, but we didn't know then when that building would be complete. Now, the forecast is clearer: Expect it to be done sometime in ...
I can’t seem to get Costco off my mind. The thoughts are about $80 million deep. As I wrote last week, that’s a conservative estimate of how much money the store — which opens in northwest Lawrence on Oct. 29 — will send to the state of Kansas in sales tax dollars over the next 20 ...
The sense of community was strong Tuesday evening inside First Baptist Church in Lawrence, where about three dozen people gathered to brainstorm ideas and address one pressing issue: the looming closure of Hilltop Child Development Center. Hilltop, a nonprofit affiliate of the University of ...
For the second year in a row, the Lawrence Police Department has received a top honor for traffic safety from the Kansas Department of Transportation. KDOT law enforcement liaison Don Hughes presented the "platinum" safety award to members of LPD on Tuesday night at the Lawrence City ...
TOPEKA — Democrat Don Coover and Republican Derek Schmidt stood with partisan allies as their congressional race in Kansas’ 2nd District entered the stretch run. Coover, a southeast Kansas veterinarian and former U.S. Army pilot, on Monday welcomed to Leavenworth former U.S. Sen. Jon ...
