While University of Kansas officials have said an investigation has begun related to an alleged recent sexual assault at a local fraternity, the university will not answer what it is investigating exactly or which office is doing the investigation.
However, a university spokeswoman provided general information on how such investigations are conducted, providing a general road map for how the process could play ...
Updated at 5:06 p.m. Tuesday
Hundreds of people gathered Monday night to protest an alleged sexual assault at a University of Kansas fraternity.
Patrick Compton, a spokesman for the Lawrence Police Department, said “a few hundred” people gathered outside of the fraternity house for Phi Kappa Psi, located on the 1600 block of West 15th Street, which is adjacent to KU’s campus. Officers closed West 15th ...
Two Lawrence educators in their second year of teaching were recently honored by the school district.
Superintendent Anthony Lewis on Monday announced Sarah Edmonds, a New York Elementary School fourth grade teacher, and Mary Krieger, a West Middle School sixth grade science teacher, as the winners of the district’s 2021 Horizon Awards, which recognize exemplary teachers in their second year of ...
Lawrence students may soon be able to sidestep a portion of quarantine orders if they can prove they tested negative for the coronavirus.
Superintendent Anthony Lewis announced recent changes to local COVID-19 guidance during the school board meeting on Monday. However, the district has not yet made a decision to follow them.
Lewis said the updated guidance from the Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department ...
A second McLouth man has been sentenced to probation for his involvement in a January shooting incident in Lawrence.
Camdon J. Collins, 18, was convicted of criminal discharge of a firearm, a felony, through a plea deal he agreed to in August. In the plea deal, Collins agreed to be sentenced to probation for the crime. Judge Stacey Donovan on Monday followed the suggested sentence, ordering Collins to 24 months ...
On the east side of Free State High School sits a garden featuring rows of plants and trees. Within them are growing tomatoes, apples and watermelons, among other produce.
Those plants represent a class project that has turned into a multiyear student-led initiative to tend a permaculture garden that benefits the local land as well as the local community.
The Lawrence school board recently gave formal approval ...
