City leaders have voted to move forward with the creation of historical markers to commemorate two young men who were killed in confrontations with police during racial and political unrest in the summer of 1970.
As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission voted unanimously to create markers for the killings of Rick “Tiger” Dowdell and Harry Nicholas “Nick” Rice.
Some Lawrence ...
City leaders will soon consider moving forward with the creation of historic markers to commemorate two young men who were killed in confrontations with police during racial and political unrest in the summer of 1970.
As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will consider a recommendation from the Historic Resources Commission to create historic markers to memorialize the deaths of Rick ...
The City of Lawrence has reached an $80,000 settlement with a Black driver who was shot by a rookie police officer after a traffic stop turned violent.
The driver, Akira Lewis, filed an excessive-force lawsuit in September 2019 against former Lawrence Police Officer Brindley Blood, who shot him, as well as additional claims against the other officer involved in the traffic stop, the City of Lawrence, its ...
City leaders will soon decide whether to move forward with a project that would add a historical marker at a site where three Black men were lynched in 1882 near current-day City Hall.
As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will consider authorizing an agreement with the Community Remembrance Project Coalition for the Equal Justice Initiative historical marker project. The Lawrence ...
Updated at 4:22 p.m. Thursday
The City of Lawrence’s solid waste employees have voted overwhelmingly to unionize, and union leaders say that efforts to improve wages and working conditions are forthcoming.
In a news release Thursday morning, the city clerk’s office reported that the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local Union No. 696 has been elected to be the recognized employee organization for ...
Federal prison officials have confirmed that Lawrence developer Thomas Fritzel has reported to prison to serve his sentence for four felonies, though the status of Fritzel’s request to serve his sentence at home remained unclear Thursday.
Eric Henning, the spokesperson for the minimum-security federal prison camp in Yankton, S.D., confirmed to the Journal-World Thursday that Fritzel had arrived at Yankton on ...
