On the day of a celebration of life for a murdered teen, a woman rushed home when she received a worrying text that "the whiteboys" were walking around her eastern Lawrence neighborhood. Shortly after she arrived home, she and her boyfriend were shot by one of those "boys" in her doorway, ...
Lawrence's 2027 budget process is nearing the finish line, and on Tuesday the City Commission will hold its public hearings on the budget and consider an increase in stormwater rates for 2027, 2028 and 2029. As the Journal-World has reported, the city manager's proposed budget is just over ...
TOPEKA — The parent company of social media platforms Facebook and Instagram agreed to one of the largest state consumer protection settlements in American history, paying $17.1 billion to most U.S. states and territories and promising to implement sweeping safety features to protect ...
What to do about idling cars that aren’t going anywhere? And, what to do about policy ideas that aren’t going anywhere? These were two of the big questions that Lawrence’s Environmental Sustainability Advisory Board faced on Thursday night, as it discussed how the city should measure its ...
A new housing development will help transition families into long-term housing, and it will be welcoming its first families in mid-September. Dozens of people attended Tuesday afternoon’s ribbon cutting ceremony for the new transitional housing development known as Promise Heights. The ...
A U.S. Postal Service worker lost the tip of her finger when she was attacked by a dog Thursday afternoon while delivering mail in Lawrence. The attack happened in the 1100 block of New York Street in East Lawrence a little before 2 p.m., Lawrence police said. When officers arrived, they ...
