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Since July 2011, the University of Kansas has completed 21 of the 49 recommendations outlined by KU’s Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) task force. The significant progress is detailed in the task force’s first annual progress report to Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Jeff Vitter.
Duane Cantrell, hired on Nov. 20 as the new president and CEO of the Kansas Bioscience Authority.
Lawrence City Manager David Corliss discusses plans for a proposed new city recreation center at a public meeting Thursday night at Lawrence Free State High School.
Sen. Jerry Moran speaks with LMH pharmacist Greg Burger about the hospital pharmacy's use of electronic medical records in the administration of medicine.
The cover of Thursday's University Daily Kansan, which apparently drew the ire of KU football coach Charlie Weis.
Kansas University Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little addresses a crowd of about 200 people, mostly Army officers, during a Black History Month luncheon at Fort Leavenworth's Frontier Conference Center on Thursday. Gray-Little spoke about the military's history of advancements on civil rights.
Kansas University Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little addresses a crowd of about 200 people, mostly Army officers, during a Black History Month luncheon at Fort Leavenworth's Frontier Conference Center on Thursday. Gray-Little spoke about the military's history of advancements on civil rights.
Firefighters from the Fairmount Township Fire Department in Basehor spray down pine trees still smoldering after a grass fire had been stopped Thursday at Wilderson Tree Farm. Crews continued to spray the area for about 30 minutes after stopping the spread of the fire at about 2:30 p.m.
Leavenworth County Fire District No. 1 firefighters extinguish the last of the flames remaining from a grass fire at Wilderson Tree Farm in Basehor on Thursday. Four different fire departments responded, and it took them about 45 minutes to get the blaze under control.
Officers investigate the scene of a rollover accident on U.S. Highway 24-40 in Tonganoxie on Wednesday, Nov. 23.
A gap in the brick remains where a section of wall at the former U.S. Displinary Barracks complex collapsed Monday morning, injuring a contractor working on the ground below. The collapse occurred as a construction crew poured concrete from the inside of the building, on the third floor. The injured man was trapped under a pile of bricks and wet concrete for about two hours before being rescued and taken to an area hospital.
Kansas Highway Patrol Troopers work the scene of a fatality accident on U.S. Highway 24/40 in Leavenworth County on Thursday, July 7, 2011.
Amelia Earhart, portrayed by historical re-enactor Ann Birney, tells a crowd stories of growing up in Atchison while performing Saturday at the Kansas Sampler Festival at Ray Miller Park in Leavenworth.
Firefighters attempt to put out a fire in the 21000 block of Cantrell Road northwest of Linwood on Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2011. A portion of the house, which is in Leavenworth County, collapsed during the fire.
The limestone obelisk monument at Leavenworth National Cemetery sparkles in the sunlight at mid-day, atop the cemetery's highest ridge. In August, the monument underwent its first full renovation since its installation 91 years ago.
Harry Kelley, of Basehor, flips through a scrapbook displaying a photo of him and other World War II prisoners of war in Cairo, Egypt, after they were released at the end of the war. Kelley said one other person in the photo was still alive. Kelley will celebrate his 90th birthday at 3 p.m. today at the Basehor VFW post.
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