The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office is warning residents about a phone scam involving calls that appear to be from a sheriff’s office number and claim that the recipient must pay a fine to avoid being arrested.
The sheriff’s office, in a social media post Tuesday afternoon, noted that the calls coming from the “spoofed” phone number claim individuals failed to appear in court or have an active arrest ...
Employees at Lawrence’s 1731 W. 23rd St. Starbucks location are forming a union, a union organizer announced Monday morning.
The group was set to file Monday with the National Labor Relations Board to schedule an election, per a press release from Workers United union organizer Mari Orrego. They’ll join a growing list of Starbucks locations, including stores in Overland Park and Kansas City, Missouri, that ...
For about an hour and a half late Sunday afternoon, Massachusetts Street in downtown Lawrence was near impossible to pass through in any kind of vehicle.
A mass of University of Kansas basketball fans swarmed into the street in the moments after the Jayhawks beat the University of Miami to clinch a berth in their first Final Four appearance since 2018.
As KU fans made their way up the street to join the ...
Lawrence skateboarders are working to raise $50,000 to install a vertical ramp in memory of Corey Lawrence — a fixture of the Kansas City-area skating scene who died last year in a skateboarding accident in Florida.
Colloquially referred to as a vert ramp, the finished product at Centennial Skate Park will be 11.5 feet tall and more than 30 feet wide. Led by a group of local businesses, the fundraiser is a ...
Since the start of this year, LMH Health has hired upward of 200 new employees — 40 of them nurses — and CEO Russ Johnson told the Journal-World it’s an encouraging sign that the health care workforce may be returning to what it was before the coronavirus pandemic.
During the pandemic, the number of contract and agency hires to the nursing staff at LMH has been much higher than normal. At one time, that ...
Updated at 10:15 a.m. Friday
LMH Health’s Therapy Services location in Baldwin City is temporarily closed for repairs after a car drove into the business next door earlier this week.
The clinic is in a strip of businesses at 820 Ames St. Photos show the vehicle drove through the doors of the American Family Insurance branch next door, which also resulted in structural damage to the clinic.
A social media ...
