A Douglas County child care organization recently received a nearly $600,000 grant to help support the development of the new early-childhood development center in eastern Lawrence.
Community Children’s Center announced in a news release Thursday that it had received the grant from the Kansas Children’s Cabinet and Trust Fund, which supports efforts to prevent child abuse and neglect. The organization said ...
An appeal by the Douglas County District Attorney’s Office of the Kansas Court of Appeals' ruling to overturn a Eudora woman’s 2018 murder conviction is still pending, DA Suzanne Valdez told the Douglas County District Court.
Carrody Buchhorn, now 47, appeared in District Court on Wednesday for a status conference in the case. During the hearing, Valdez told Judge Sally Pokorny that she had no update on her ...
Two Lawrence teens on Tuesday were bound over for trial on attempted murder charges stemming from an incident where a teen woman was struck in the head and neck in what a prosecutor called a “mafia-style shooting.”
Douglas County District Court Judge Kay Huff also allowed for the charges against the two teens — Alejandro Martinez-Diaz and Ontareo X. Jackson, both 18 — to be upgraded to two counts of ...
Two fresh faces are set to appear on the Lawrence school board.
Newcomer Kay Emerson received the most votes among the six candidates running for the school board’s three open seats in Tuesday’s general election, earning a quarter of all votes. With all the precincts reporting Tuesday night, Emerson earned 7,662 votes, about 675 more than the second-highest vote getter.
“I’ve been really kind of ...
Updated at 3:04 p.m. Monday
Emergency crews responded to the scene of a fatal car accident Monday morning on Kansas Highway 10 east of Lawrence.
Emergency dispatch received the call shortly before 11 a.m. for a vehicle that was heading eastbound on the highway and ran off the road near the East 1900 Road exit ramp, which is between Lawrence and Eudora, said George Diepenbrock, a spokesman for the Douglas ...
As the coronavirus pandemic continues into a second full school year, data from the Lawrence school district suggests that educators are leaving their jobs midyear more than ever before.
The increase comes at a time when Kansas officials are already concerned with a shortage of teachers for Kansas schools.
The district in the last two school years has seen a significant increase in the number of teachers ...
