As the Lawrence school district celebrated the completion of a multi-year project to renovate Lawrence High School on Saturday, alumni who came back to see the historic building’s new look said it was an emotional experience.
Some of the alumni who spoke at Saturday's ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark the end of the $46 million project said they were on the verge of tears. They said they remembered what it was ...
The Lawrence school board will convene for a brief meeting on Monday to discuss labor negotiations with district staff.
The board is scheduled to discuss the contract negotiations in an executive session, which allows the board to meet in private to discuss the details of a certain issue up for consideration.
Julie Boyle, a spokeswoman for the school district, said the meeting is meant to update the board on ...
With the testimony of a former Douglas County coroner again in doubt, the district attorney’s office on Friday would not say whether it is reviewing cases where his testimony was provided.
In response to the Journal-World’s question about whether the DA’s office was reviewing past cases that used testimony from Dr. Erik Mitchell, who was the coroner from 1996 to 2018, a spokeswoman for the office declined ...
Updated at 3:55 p.m. Thursday
Police arrested a 38-year-old man on Wednesday after he allegedly threatened an employee of a southern Lawrence restaurant with a machete.
The man, Larry L. Morgan, of Lawrence, was formally charged Thursday in Douglas County District Court with one count of aggravated assault, a level-seven felony.
Police arrested Morgan around 6 p.m. Wednesday, according to the jail booking ...
A Lawrence man accused of murder in a fatal stabbing at a grocery store in August is currently unfit to stand trial in the case, a Douglas County District Court judge ruled on Thursday.
Judge Kay Huff ruled that Robert Earl Davis, 54, is incompetent to stand trial on the charge of first-degree murder because he suffers from significant mental illness. She made the ruling after reviewing a mental health ...
A Lawrence man who was suspected of being involved in a fatal shooting in central Lawrence last month has been arrested in Tennessee, the Lawrence Police Department announced on Wednesday.
Authorities for the U.S. Marshals Service arrested Andrel Darnell Spates Jr., 19, on suspicion of first-degree murder in the death of 21-year-old Christian Willis, of Wichita. Spates is expected to be brought back to Douglas ...
