Sasha Jefferson last fall drove all the way from her southeast Kansas home in Pittsburg to get what she thought was a good deal on a used BMW at Lawrence Kia. That luxury car instead has taken her to a place she never expected to be: the center of an alleged loan scheme.
The auto division of the banking giant Wells Fargo has determined that the income listed on Jefferson’s loan application was overstated, ...
A longtime Lawrence medical practice has been bought by LMH Health and soon will have a new home on south Iowa Street.
The nonprofit hospital announced today that it has finalized a deal with First Med, a nearly 30-year old walk-in clinic that operates just east of 23rd and Iowa streets. LMH will be moving First Med from its current home at 2323 Ridge Court into a renovated retail building at 3211 south Iowa ...
The local election season is hitting a key moment with Monday’s filing deadline near, and some readers have questions about some of the politics behind the races.
Two questions seem to be the most frequent: Why is there a dearth of local Republican candidates, and have some of the Democrats recently been Republicans?
It is easier to start with the second question: Yes, several have switched from Republican ...
Not even Lawrence’s longtime tradition of a community fireworks show is safe from COVID-19. A representative of the local Jaycees club confirmed Wednesday that the show along the Kansas River won’t happen this year.
“We safely could shoot off the fireworks, but we don’t have a way to safely have everybody watch the fireworks,” said Sherri Cannon, a member of the local Jaycees club that has conducted ...
It could have been worse. It is a phrase I utter every time I leave a homemade haircut with both ears, and it also may echo in the city’s finance department after Lawrence leaders received their first sales tax check that has been slashed by the pandemic.
The city’s May sales tax collections were down 7.1% compared with the same period a year ago, which amounts to about a $150,000 hit to the city’s ...
Perhaps you noticed that May hasn’t been great on many fronts. (Granted, I have figured out how to gain weight despite having my mouth mostly covered, which is surely an advancement in ingenuity.) When it comes to unemployment, the news isn’t great anywhere, but there are some particularly troubling signs in Douglas County.
In short, Douglas County’s unemployment rate is growing faster than most urban ...
