There’s the smell of a national championship in the air in Lawrence.
Yes, the KU men’s basketball team has been making the nets pop a bit more regularly, but the national championship vibe comes from an even more reliable activity in Lawrence — the popping of a cold Budweiser.
Lawrence-based O’Malley Beverage, which is the distributor of Budweiser and Anheuser-Busch products throughout northeast ...
When it comes to being a law enforcement officer in Kansas, you better have done some reading before you ever pull your weapon.
The Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center — the University of Kansas-run center near Hutchinson that trains the vast majority of police officers in the state — has extensive classes full of legal definitions and standards related to when police officers can use force as part of ...
The students had just watched a video of a man getting beaten over the head with a baton, tased five times, and paramedics ultimately retrieving his unconscious body from a pool of his own blood.
Police officers had delivered the beating, and the classroom was full of young adults hoping to soon become police officers.
Those watching the video inside the classroom of the Kansas Law Enforcement Training ...
The shooting of Alex Pretti moved quickly.
It started with a law enforcement officer shoving a seemingly unarmed female protestor to the ground. About 30 seconds later, it ended with — video evidence shows — two law enforcement officers firing multiple rounds into Pretti, who already had been shot and was lying disabled on the street.
But in the days that have followed the Jan. 24 actions by U.S. Border ...
The leader who oversees the University of Kansas chancellor and the presidents of the other state universities is retiring later this year.
Blake Flanders, president and CEO of the Kansas Board of Regents, announced Thursday afternoon that he will retire from the position on June 30. Flanders, who has served in the role since 2015, is responsible for overseeing the activities of the state’s public ...
The University of Kansas has the best online program in the nation for educators who want to receive a master’s degree in special education programs, according to new rankings from U.S. News and World Report.
The publication also found that three other online graduate programs at KU are among the top 10 nationally in their fields.
The School of Education garnered the most 10 rankings among all KU schools ...
