Lawrence city commissioners expressed excitement on Tuesday for an upcoming study about potential development and infrastructure opportunities in North Lawrence, which city staff says will take a holistic look at improving this key gateway to the city. The study, for which the city is ...
After a fatal accident during a towing job in 2020, a Lawrence tow company owner had a simple message for his employee who was on the scene: "We need to lawyer up." That's what Douglas County jurors heard in a civil trial on Tuesday, in a video from a police facility. But they also heard the ...
To "reduce the regulatory burden" on its inspectors, the city-county health department wants to exempt itself from having to do annual sanitary inspections at Douglas County's schools, where it says its work is duplicated by other agencies. Kansas statute requires local health officers to, ...
A Douglas County jury on Tuesday convicted an inmate of the Douglas County Jail of battery on a law enforcement officer. The defendant, Cetewayo M. Ragins, 43, of Lawrence, was found guilty of biting a corrections officer in the leg, a felony, in June of last year at the jail. The jury in ...
Story updated at 5:38 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025. ARLINGTON, Va. — The remains of all 67 victims of last week's midair collision of an American Airlines flight and an Army helicopter near the nation's capital have been recovered, authorities said Tuesday. All but one has been ...
Updated at 5:05 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 4 A jury is now deliberating the case of a 31-year-old Lawrence man who is accused of drunkenly slamming his SUV into Big Mill restaurant and injuring three people on Nov. 4, 2022. Defense attorney Nicholas Hayes on Tuesday morning attempted to convince the ...
