The two last locally owned Lawrence banks have reached a deal to become one.
Great American Bank, which is led by Lawrence businessman Doug Compton, has signed a deal to purchase The University National Bank, which is led by longtime Lawrence banker Todd Sutherland.
Both banks are headquartered in Lawrence, which is really a rarity as several longtime locally owned banks such as Douglas County Bank and ...
Nathan Wolf wouldn’t be the first engineering student who has had to explain to his parents how his semester blew up.
But no, this isn’t a story about how the dog ate his thermodynamics homework. This is about actually blowing stuff up. Wolf and a team of fellow students spent most of last semester designing a shoulder-fired missile while completing their studies at the University of Kansas’ School of ...
Most patients in Jefferson and Leavenworth counties who need an ambulance no longer will have the option to be taken to LMH Health, because of COVID-related challenges the Lawrence hospital is experiencing.
Members of the LMH board of trustees were told that while COVID hospitalization numbers at LMH have stabilized somewhat, staffing challenges and other issues have caused the hospital to tighten its policy ...
Story updated at 2:57 p.m. Tuesday:
A manufacturer of plastic drink cups is ramping up its Lawrence operations with a $60 million expansion that will add 84 jobs to the local workforce.
Leaders with Berry Global announced Tuesday morning that it had chosen its Lawrence plant as the site of an expansion that will increase the company’s capacity to make the thermoform, polypropylene plastic cups that are used ...
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly — a Democrat in an otherwise largely Republican state — stopped short of endorsing President Joe Biden’s order that businesses with more than 100 employees require vaccinations or frequent testing of those who refuse to get the vaccine.
While in Lawrence on Tuesday morning for an economic development announcement, Kelly said she needed to hear more details about how the ...
There are plenty of shoes on the market made for walking, but that doesn’t mean they walk themselves. Ryan Schwisow, owner and manager of Brown’s Shoe Fit in downtown Lawrence, can tell you that.
You may have seen him walking large carts of shoes up and down Massachusetts Street recently, but that is not a new exercise trend; nor, more importantly, is it a sign of trouble for Brown’s, which is one of the ...
