Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical is ramping up its efforts to alert the public to a tool that can be life-saving in cases of cardiac arrest.
The tool is PulsePoint Respond, a 911-connected mobile app that's available free to anyone. It works like this: When 911 is alerted to a cardiac arrest incident in a public space, a PulsePoint alert goes out to app users within a quarter-mile of the emergency, then ...
More than two dozen students from Lawrence's Southwest Middle School received special recognition at the recent Future City Competition international finals in Washington, D.C.
The group, representing the Great Plains Future City Kansas-KC Metro Region, brought home the "Outstanding Future City Plan Award,” which recognized the team's intensive planning and project management efforts. Last weekend's award, ...
Despite a few lingering questions, Douglas County commissioners on Wednesday approved a $30,000 funding request that will help Lawrence’s chamber of commerce fund a variety of business and entrepreneurship initiatives.
At its regular meeting, the commission unanimously voted to fund the supplemental request, which had already been tentatively approved during the county's budget deliberations in July. As the ...
In a self-portrait that will soon appear at an international exhibition in New York, Lawrence High senior Isabel Klish quite literally reflects on living with a skin condition that causes acne breakouts.
The piece, titled “Papule, Pustules, Nodules, Cystic," depicts Klish peering into a mirror while attempting to cover up her acne with a makeup brush. It and three more of her works have been selected to ...
Douglas County commissioners on Wednesday will consider approving a $30,000 funding request made by Lawrence's chamber of commerce and the Economic Development Corporation of Douglas County for various initiatives that would work with entrepreneurs or businesses.
As the Journal-World reported, the supplemental funding request was tentatively approved during budget hearings last year, but commissioners raised ...
When Hamas attacked his kibbutz on Oct. 7, 2023, Israeli father and businessman Gal Cohen-Solal, his wife and their three kids were hiding in their safe room — and throughout his 30-hour ordeal, his mind was racing about what he might have to do to protect them.
In his mind, he told an audience at the University of Kansas on Thursday, he was running through scenario after horrifying scenario. “Jumping on a ...
