While west Lawrence lost a space to shop for groceries when the Hy-Vee store near Sixth and Monterey Way closed in 2019, nearly five years later the big space has helped Lawrence enter the world of major, private sports facilities for youths and adults alike.
Or, put another way, you can't get pickles there anymore, but you can play pickleball.
The facility at 4000 W. Sixth St. is home to a lot of things — ...
An Oskaloosa man who was previously convicted of soliciting sex from a child was charged on Friday with human trafficking and a sex crime against a teenager.
The man, Kenneth John McClelland, 30, faces one felony count of aggravated human trafficking and one felony count of aggravated indecent liberties with a child, according to charging documents. The charges relate to an alleged incident on May 10 involving ...
A Lawrence man will serve no additional prison time after his felony assault and battery charges were reduced on Wednesday to a misdemeanor through a plea agreement with the state.
Cetewayo M. Ragins, 43, was sentenced to just shy of five years in prison earlier this month for biting a Douglas County corrections officer on the leg. He had two pending criminal cases after that sentencing, one for misdemeanor ...
A hearing for a Lawrence police officer accused of misdemeanor battery in Shawnee County was delayed on Friday due to a busy court schedule.
The officer, Myrone Grady, 51, is charged with one misdemeanor count of battery in connection with an incident on Jan. 27 at Shawnee Heights High School, where he was attending his son’s basketball game, as the Journal-World reported.
Grady is alleged to have struck a ...
A teen girl took the stand on Thursday and testified that a man sexually assaulted her multiple times and, once police were involved, attempted to bribe her to change her story.
The accused, Mark Brent Lee, 41, is charged in Douglas County District Court with one count of rape, one count of aggravated indecent liberties with a child and one count of aggravated intimidation of a witness, all felonies. The girl ...
For graduate students in the University of Kansas' architecture school, the final exam isn't just a couple of hours long, and you'll need more than a pencil and paper to take it.
As a last step to earning their degrees, the students in the master's program spend a year in the school's Studio 804 capstone course, where they design and construct a real-life single-family home themselves. Sometimes they work 12- ...
