After nine months without a public comment period, the Lawrence school board will again allow community members to address board members at the end of their regular meetings. After Bob Byers was appointed board president in July, he expressed an interest in bringing a public comment period ...
New caps on federal student loans are intended to limit student debt and pressure higher education to lower costs, but that could cause unintended consequences and ultimately worsen a shortage of physicians in Kansas and nationwide. The limits went into effect earlier this summer as part of ...
New apartment buildings in North Lawrence, row houses near Holcom Park and a redevelopment of an old school building are a few of the projects that have applied for money from the city's Affordable Housing Trust Fund for 2027. The application period closed earlier this month, and at the ...
Miller Mart owner Sang Lee knows his regulars by name. He grabs what they want, like a specific brand of cigarettes, without them needing to ask for it. “I’m at the point where I can count individual transactions on the computer and know which customer it was that made this one transaction ...
A 45-year-old Lenexa man is facing three felony charges after he allegedly burglarized a KU fraternity. Lawrence police arrested Ryan Craig Woods — with the assistance of camera footage — Thursday pursuant to a warrant. The break-in allegedly occurred on Aug. 22. Two charges of aggravated ...
The State of Kansas spent millions of dollars prosecuting an innocent woman and subsequently defending itself against her wrongful conviction lawsuit, and now taxpayers may be on the hook for millions more as a judge decides whether the state also has to pay her attorneys more than $4.5 million ...
