Story updated at 4:21 p.m. Friday, March 1, 2019: A longtime downtown restaurant closed for a day because state health code inspectors found cockroaches in the restaurant. The Kansas Department of Agriculture’s health code inspectors closed Free State Brewing Co., 636 Massachusetts St., Thursday afternoon to make the restaurant address the cockroach infestation before it could continue business, said Heather ...
Story updated at 7:44 p.m. Thursday Two University of Kansas administrators, including one who recently turned down a controversial permanent appointment, will leave the university this summer. Clarence Lang, the interim dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at KU, has been named dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Pennsylvania State University, according to a news release from Penn State ...
Updated 2 p.m. Friday, March 1: This story has been revised to reflect that the substantive motion by the NCAA was not denied but only the form in which it was made. The federal judge presiding over a college basketball corruption case has not yet decided on an NCAA request for unreleased information related to the case. Judge Lewis Kaplan's denial Thursday pertained only to the NCAA's request to file the ...
Story updated at 5:20 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019: A fire heavily damaged a home in southern Lawrence on Tuesday. Tom Fagan, division chief for Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical, said fire crews responded to a call for a house fire at 2312 Free State Lane shortly after 6 a.m. "Upon our arrival, the two-story house had heavy fire involvement on the first floor that extended to the second floor," Fagan ...
NCAA officials are seeking unreleased information the FBI gathered for three trials for college basketball corruption cases, one of which has already prominently featured the University of Kansas basketball program, according to a Yahoo Sports report. Donald Remy, NCAA executive vice president and chief legal officer, said the organization was seeking more information as part of its own investigation into ...
The University of Kansas wants the three men convicted of fraud in the college basketball corruption trial to pay more than $1 million worth of restitution to the university, according to a document filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on Tuesday. William M. Sullivan, an attorney representing KU, said in a letter to the court that the university wanted restitution from former ...