Updated at 9 a.m., Thursday, Jan. 1, 2026. A late-night apartment fire displaced three people but injured none on Tuesday, according to a representative from Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical. LDCFM’s McKenzi Ezell said via email that units were dispatched t0 2500 W. Sixth St. after ...
Ahead of the first public engagement meeting for the design of Lawrence’s new fire station in the northwestern part of the city, project leaders plan to provide details about how the design attempts reduce the impact to the neighborhood. Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical will be hosting a ...
WASHINGTON — The Jan. 6. riot at the U.S. Capitol "does not happen" without Donald Trump, former special counsel Jack Smith told lawmakers earlier this month in characterizing the Republican president as the "most culpable and most responsible person" in the criminal conspiracy to overturn ...
LOS ANGELES — Betty Boop and "Blondie" are joining Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh in the public domain. The first appearances of the classic cartoon and comic characters are among the pieces of intellectual property whose 95-year U.S. copyright maximum has been reached, putting them in ...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump issued the first vetoes of his second term on Tuesday, rejecting two low-profile bipartisan bills, a move that had the effect of punishing backers who had opposed the president's positions on other issues. Trump vetoed drinking water pipeline legislation ...
As De Soto envisions expanding the industrial park near the massive new Panasonic factory, a small nature park near the Douglas County border could literally be in the way of that growth. The Sunflower Nature Park in De Soto — a 58-acre park about five miles outside of Eudora — sits just ...
