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 ...
Updated at 6:20 p.m. Monday, July 13 Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly on Monday appointed District Judge Krishnan Christopher Jayaram to serve as a justice on the seven-member Kansas Supreme Court. Jayaram, of Lenexa, was among three finalists to fill the open seat created by Justice Marla Luckert’s ...
