The Douglas County Commission has renewed hope that the county might have a seat at the table as the city of Lawrence seeks to hire the new chief of Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical.
Lawrence City Manager Tom Markus indicated at the City Commission’s March 5 meeting that he did not intend to include a county representative in the hiring process for the next chief of the joint city-county service. County ...
Douglas County commissioners on Wednesday will discuss a message they want to send to the city of Lawrence regarding the Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical department.
After Lawrence City Manager Tom Markus indicated that he did not intend to include a county representative in the hiring process for the next chief of that department, commissioners at their March 6 meeting directed Interim County ...
Nearly half of people — 48 percent — with serious mental illnesses who were released from the Douglas County Jail from January to June 2017 returned within six months.
Of that group, 38 percent were brought back to jail because they missed a court appearance.
Those statistics are two of several key points a presenter reviewed with the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council at its meeting Tuesday in an ...
Bill Reilly got a bit emotional as he shared his story with Douglas County commissioners on Wednesday.
He told the commission that he “entered the system” as a 2-year-old kid. Over the decades since, he’s been a foster child, a patient in rehab and mental hospitals, and he’s survived suicide attempts. He said he’s been "every person and every role that you can possibly be throughout the system.” ...
Lawrence High School’s forensics team came away from its first showing at an area tournament with nine students qualifying for national events this spring.
LHS hasn’t participated in National Catholic Forensic League events before, coach Jeff Plinsky said, because its national tournaments have generally been held on the coasts. But this year’s, scheduled for Memorial Day weekend in Milwaukee, is driveable ...
I have a somewhat irrational fear of falling to my death on snow and ice, so I basically haven’t left home unless it was completely necessary since November-ish.
At some point midwinter, I woke briefly from my hibernation to purchase an Echo Dot from Amazon so that I could turn off the lights without having to expose an extremity to the chill of my pathetically insulated apartment. But upon installing Alexa, ...
