As he lined up Wednesday with his Free State High School classmates minutes before their commencement procession in Allen Fieldhouse, Oliver Kapfer was momentarily stumped when asked what made the school’s class of 2019 special. “Me,” he finally answered. “It’s special to me because this is my class.” Kapfer, who plans to attend Johnson County Community College next fall, added that his friends, ...
Members of the Baker University Class of 2019 were sent off Sunday with the message that they continue to provide service to others as they did as undergraduates. The university handed out bachelor’s degrees to 128 seniors at its Baldwin City campus. After the seniors for the school’s College of Arts and Sciences and schools of Education and Nursing were seated in the Collins Event Center at the conclusion ...
Story updated at 9:31 p.m. Saturday, May 18, 2019: Lawrence received more than an inch of rain Saturday, and another round of storms early next week is expected to dump another two to three inches on the area. According to the National Weather Service, 1.12 inches of rain fell on Lawrence on Saturday. Most of that fell during the morning — Brandon Drake, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service ...
An individual was arrested early Sunday afternoon after reportedly leading law enforcement officers on a chase through southwest Lawrence. Sgt. Rob Murry of the Lawrence Police Department said a driver was arrested at the end of a pursuit that ended shortly after noon in the 2700 block of Grand Circle, in a neighborhood just south of Holcom Sports Complex. The driver was the only person arrested in the ...
Updated story - May 6 — Sheriff’s office identifies man killed in motorcycle crash near Eudora The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office continues to investigate a fatal motorcycle accident that occurred Saturday afternoon near Eudora. In an email sent shortly after 11 a.m. Sunday, Sgt. Kristen Channel, spokeswoman for the sheriff’s office, said the name of the man killed in the accident is being ...