A vehicle-less Massachusetts St. was flat. Nothing else in downtown Lawrence was on Monday evening. The Kansas Jayhawks pulled off a national championship comeback for the ages trailing by 15 points at halftime and then steamrolled fellow blue blood North Carolina in the second half. KU won 72-69. “It has been a roller coaster of emotions,” Hannah Hartnett, a freshman from Chicago, said from a crowd of ...
Update: As of 4:50 p.m., there were multiple reports around Lawrence that cable television service had been restored. However, it wasn't clear whether service had returned to the entire Lawrence area, and Midco had not yet provided an update to the Journal-World. • • • Large numbers of Midco customers in Lawrence are without cable television service just hours before the Kansas Jayhawks play in a Final ...
Douglas County politics for the next few years may look a bit like spring training baseball — several faces you don’t recognize and a fair number of people playing in odd positions. Lawrence residents already have learned — and largely are upset — that Lawrence will become part of the western Kansas-based 1st Congressional district, placing the state’s most liberal city with the most conservative ...
Sen. Tom Holland says he has hired an attorney to challenge a new Kansas Senate map that removes all of his district’s Lawrence territory and largely replaces with it Johnson County communities. “I’ll take it all the way to the Supreme Court,” Holland, D-Baldwin City, said of his intentions of filing a lawsuit in state court. Holland, who has represented Lawrence in the Kansas Senate since 2009, said ...
Dr. Barney Graham — widely credited as one of the key researchers who developed today’s life-saving COVID-19 vaccines — knows some people won’t receive the vaccine because they worry it was developed too quickly. What he also knows is the world is quite lucky to have that worry. Graham — who received his medical degree from the University of Kansas and recently retired as the deputy director of the ...
It was about 14 years ago that Nicole Campos took a $500 investment and started selling unique clothes to the approximately 4,000 residents of the rural community of Scott City in western Kansas. Fast forward to this weekend, and there's a good chance that her Lawrence store — her 20th store — will have more than 10 times Scott City’s entire population standing outside its doors. Granted, Campos’ new ...