The Lawrence Police Department is investigating an apparent shooting at the Carnegie Building Saturday morning that left one man wounded. According to a news release from department spokeswoman Sgt. Amy Rhoads, a Lawrence officer heard what sounded like a gunshot from inside the Carnegie Building, 200 W. Ninth St., about 12:30 a.m. after observing a group of individuals running through a parking lot in the 800 ...
The Delaware Tribe has abandoned plans to develop as an agricultural heritage center a 92-acre site just northeast of Lawrence. Chester Brooks, chief of the Delaware Tribe, said the Delaware Tribal Council decided the proposed agricultural heritage center would not produce enough revenue to pay for the $500,000 cost needed to develop the site. The Bartlesville, Okla.,-based tribe instead is now attempting to ...
There certainly will be plenty that's new in Douglas County government in 2019. A new commissioner will be seated this month, and the county will be searching for a new county administrator for the first time in more than 25 years. But when it comes to issues, expect two old ones to dominate the year. Once again, the issues of jail overcrowding and the expansion of behavioral health services promise to be the ...
A Lawrence man was shocked with a Taser and arrested early Sunday morning after a chase that started on the Kansas Turnpike ended in the 1100 block of Lawrence Avenue. Kansas Highway Patrol Lt. Mark Christensen said 35-year-old Cory Phast Lane, of Lawrence, was arrested at 1:30 a.m. Sunday after a chase that started about a mile east of the Douglas/Leavenworth county line on the turnpike. Christensen said he ...
The drawn-out 2018 soybean harvest may be finished locally before the first of the year, a local elevator manager says. The late summer and fall rains that saved the soybean crop also delayed its harvest, said Clark Wenger, general manager of Ottawa Co-op. The 15 Ottawa Co-op elevators, including the two elevators in Lawrence, were open into December as the harvest dragged on, he said. “We ended up taking ...
Second chances are what Phoenix Woodworking is all about, and that starts with the company itself, its founder says. The goal of Shine Adams' new woodworking shop, which opened in September at the Dwayne Peaslee Technical Training Center, is to hire the homeless, prison parolees, recovering addicts and others with employment challenges and give them a second chance to rejoin the workforce. But it's not the ...