Even an activist as legendary as Martin Luther King Jr. needed someone to help him up sometimes, and that was never more true than when King was stabbed in the chest with a letter opener at a 1958 book signing in Harlem.
The attack, carried out by a woman struggling with mental illness, left King “a sneeze away from death,” as he put it. And in the hospital, fellow activist Howard Thurman had an important ...
If the debate season were over right now, Free State High School alumnus John Marshall and his University of Kansas debate partner Graham Revare would finish as the top team in the U.S.
In debate, KU debate director Scott Harris said, there's no formal poll of coaches or media that ranks teams like in sports programs. But Marshall, a junior at KU, and Revare, a senior, have amassed the best record in the nation ...
With a multimillion-dollar federal grant, University of Kansas researchers will be studying a big idea for how farms might prevent crop diseases from spreading: Act less like a farm and more like a prairie.
Many farms are what's called a monoculture, where there are rows upon rows of the same kind of crop. If a pathogen affects one plant on the farm, it can easily spread to others close by, because they're all ...
A local health organization will be receiving funds from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas' statewide health and wellness initiative, and it hopes to use them for farmers market programs, anti-tobacco efforts in schools, community health resource navigators and more.
LiveWell Douglas County was one of 20 organizations in the state selected to participate in the current phase of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield ...
The Douglas County Commission unanimously approved two permits related to the expansion of Kansas Highway 10 on Wednesday, after a bit of discussion about whether waste from road materials would pose an environmental risk as it broke down.
The commissioners approved the conditional use permits, or CUPs, at their regular meeting on Wednesday. The permits are for a landfill to dispose of concrete, concrete ...
Shelter stays, jail beds, ambulance rides and ER visits: Homeless people in Douglas County used more than $5 million of these types of emergency services in 2023, and the average per-person cost may have been above $7,000.
That's according to a report released in October that the county compiled for the Kansas Housing Advocacy Network. It looks at records like jail bookings and hospital stays to try to ...
