A Topeka woman was injured Saturday evening after hitting the rear of a semitrailer on Interstate 70 in Douglas County. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol online crash logs, Donnie Jo Myers, 62, of Topeka, was westbound on 1-70 in a 2007 Toyota Avalon about two miles east of the Shawnee County line at 9:45 p.m. when she made an evasive maneuver to the left and collided with the rear-end of a semitrailer ...
Lawrence Interdenominational Nutrition Kitchen volunteers at downtown Lawrence's First Christian Church weren’t expecting a very busy day when they started serving their annual Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday afternoon. The reason? LINK board member Anne Emert said that the in-person version of the community meal has been eclipsed by home deliveries. “We delivered 700 meals,” she said. “We have 150 ...
Baldwin City has received $250,000 in pledged donations to convert the old Chapel Street gymnasium — now called the Bauer building — into a community center, even though no decision has been made to move forward with the project, Baldwin City Councilman Cory Venable said. Venable shared the pledged total at a Nov. 9 Baldwin City Council meeting. The total was pledged from large businesses and corporate ...
A Eudora man was killed Friday in a one-vehicle accident in Stanton County. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol crash logs, the accident occurred at 11:40 p.m. on U.S. Highway 160 about 17 miles east of the Colorado border. The report states that Bryce L. Stude, 28, of Eudora, was eastbound on U.S. 160 when he overcorrected his 2001 Chevrolet Tahoe after it drifted off the roadway to the north. The ...
When Mindy Andrasevits takes the reins at the Eudora Fire Department later this month, she'll become the first female fire chief in Douglas County's history. But she's not making a big deal about it. “I appreciate the distinction, but it’s not something I thought about,” she said. “It’s not new to me. I was the first woman firefighter hired in St. Joe 25 years ago.” Andrasevits, who was hired last ...
A woman from New York state was killed in a hit-and-run accident Friday evening on Interstate 35 in Franklin County. The accident occurred at 8:23 p.m. Friday about 3 miles east of Ottawa. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol's online crash logs, Lori Anne Maxwell, 54, of Gloversville, N.Y., and Adrion Micheal Self, 22, of Emporia, were both stopped in the right southbound lane. Maxwell got out of her ...