Every year since 1997, the Journal-World has invited administrators and counselors from public and private high schools in the Lawrence area to nominate their most outstanding seniors for the Journal-World’s Academic All-Star team. As in previous years, a panel of three judges reviewed applications for the award and $500 scholarship. The top 12 All-Stars were chosen based on their strong academics, ...
Most high school students could probably give you a whole list of courses they wished they didn’t have to take. Not Bishop Seabury Academy senior Audrey Nguyen-Hoang. In fact, when a friend once asked her what her least favorite subject was in school, Nguyen-Hoang said she couldn’t come up with an answer. For her, the possibility of learning something new is always exhilarating. “Everything changes when ...
The last few years for Kenneth Reed have been much like a biblical parable, Douglas County District Court Judge Kay Huff said Friday during an event honoring Reed. While many believed Reed’s drug use and associated criminal problems in Douglas County were a lost cause, Huff said Douglas County’s Drug Court had faith in a different outcome. And that faith paid off, as Reed, 45, recently became the first ...
A recent Lawrence fire that displaced 10 residents was caused by improperly discarded “smoking materials,” a Lawrence fire official said on Thursday. Tom Fagan, Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical administrative division chief, told the Journal-World in an email that the May 5 fire at 507 Colorado St. resulted in an estimated $264,000 loss to property. About $176,000 of the property loss was to the ...
A Douglas County jury on Thursday found a Lawrence man guilty of raping a guest in his home in early 2017. Jurors took less than an hour to conclude that Erick Ogwangi sexually assaulted his wife's friend. He was taken into custody immediately after the verdict was read. Ogwangi, 36, stood trial this week at the court’s Douglas County Fairgrounds location. The felony charge stems from a January 2017 ...
A Lawrence man was convicted Thursday in Douglas County District Court of voluntary manslaughter in the shooting death of his girlfriend. Johnathon L. West, 43, pleaded guilty to the felony charge, which was downgraded from second-degree murder through the agreement. The original murder charge stemmed from the killing of Lawrence resident Jennifer Mosby, 41, who was found dead at her home in January. Mosby ...