A man accused of murder in the highway death of a local actor waived his right to a preliminary hearing in another criminal matter on Tuesday. Eliseo J. Munoz, 24, was scheduled to have a preliminary hearing in that matter — a case in which he's charged with a third DUI and driving while ...
A manufacturer complex piping and cooling systems for large buildings — everything from the big Panasonic plant in De Soto to AI data centers — officially opened its new facility Tuesday in Lawrence Venture Park. Leaders of U.S. Engineering Metalworks gathered with several dozen community ...
The other half of a duo who conspired to throw drugs over a state prison wall has now been sentenced to six and a half years in federal prison. Tommie Baggett, 26, was an inmate at the state prison in Hutchinson when he arranged with another felon — Jermel Fleming, 33, of Lawrence — to ...
Douglas County commissioners will hear about plans to update the county’s zoning and subdivision rules on Wednesday, starting with smaller administrative changes before addressing broader land-use and development policies. The county is planning to take a “phased approach” to updating ...
TOPEKA — The Kansas State Board of Education rejected conclusions of child abuse investigators, a professional practice commission and attorneys with the Department of Education to protect the teaching license of a mother accused of physically abusing her son. The incident prompting ...
More changes are coming to the tenure process of University of Kansas professors and other state universities — though they are not as monumental as those that were adopted earlier this year. The Kansas Board of Regents is poised to approve a proposal on Wednesday that would place the power ...
