A career path that included stints in the corporate and nonprofit worlds has prepared Carol Kobza to fill the big shoes left by Lynne Green at Van Go inc.
Kobza took over Jan. 15 as executive director of Van Go after Green, who founded the nonprofit in 1997 and was its executive director until her Dec. 28 retirement.
Green said Van Go is an arts-based social service agency that transforms the lives of the ...
Lawrence and Douglas County dodged the worst of the latest winter storm to blow through northeast Kansas, but Saturday morning did bring frigid temperatures.
Sarah Teefey, a meteorologist with the Topeka National Weather Service office, said reported snowfall totals in Lawrence mostly ranged from half an inch to an inch, but there was a report of 3 inches near 15th Street and Haskell Avenue. That could have ...
A small group of activists marches down Massachusetts Street in support of women’s issues on Saturday, the same day that the 2019 Women’s March took place in Washington, D.C.
A Missouri man was arrested Saturday night in Eudora after a chase that started on Interstate 70 northeast of Lawrence.
Sgt. Kristen Channel, of the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, said via e-mail that 29-year-old Phillip Candillo, of Smithville, Mo., was arrested at about 11 p.m. Saturday at the Kansas Highway 10/Church Street interchange in Eudora after a sheriff's deputy performed a tactical intervention ...
A winter storm dropped about 4 inches of wet, heavy snow on Lawrence Friday evening and Saturday morning, causing power outages in the city and Douglas County but not having much of an impact on traffic in the city.
Bryan Baerg, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Topeka, said snowfall amounts from 3.5 to 6 inches were reported in Lawrence from the storm, with 4 inches being the most consistent ...
A 23-year-old Lawrence man was booked Friday into Douglas County Jail on multiple charges following a two-vehicle accident that occurred while he was allegedly fleeing a law enforcement officer.
According to a Kansas Highway Patrol report, the accident occurred at 7:28 p.m. Friday when Nilo Isaac Pena, 23, of Lawrence, drove northbound on Alabama Street in a 2017 Kia Sedona in a suspected attempt to elude ...
