Lawrence school board members on Monday chose Bob Byers as their new board president and Yolanda Franklin as their vice president for the upcoming 2026-2027 school year. The board held its annual organizational meeting on Monday to elect its officers. Byers was the only board member nominated ...
A Douglas County jury has been selected to hear the case of a Lawrence man accused of sexually abusing two young girls during sleepovers at his home several years ago. On Monday, a jury of seven men and seven women, including two alternates, heard an opening argument from prosecutor David ...
A new healthcare facility on Haskell Indian Nations University’s campus is expected to be built in the next “three to five years,” the CEO of the Haskell Indian Health Center told the Journal-World. The university and the Indian Health Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of Health ...
Measles has been detected in wastewater in Douglas County, the local health department announced Monday, though there are currently no confirmed cases here. Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health said in a release that the measles virus was detected by WastewaterSCAN, a national program that ...
Douglas County commissioners expressed interest in allocating $1.5 million for a planned youth mental health crisis facility during their 2027 budget deliberations on Monday. Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center asked the county for the $1.5 million for its Judge Jean Shepherd Youth ...
You sure can recycle food, and I’m not just talking about taking a chance on the meatloaf a week after it was served. For a long time, gardeners in the know have been saving their food scraps in buckets or bins to allow those scraps to break down into a nutrient-rich compost to feed their ...
