Lawrence is one of 15 sites included as part of a regional transportation plan announced Tuesday that will have a direct connection to downtown Kansas City during the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
In a meeting at Lenexa's city hall, KC2026, the nonprofit that will oversee strategy and perform the host city duties for the World Cup, unveiled ConnectKC26, a regional transportation plan designed to move visitors and ...
For most of her career as a physician, Shelly Kortkamp didn’t envision ever shifting into the C-suite.
But as she was working as a hospitalist at the Hospital Sisters Health System in Illinois, Kortkamp, said the CEO approached her to see if she would serve as the Chief Medical Officer on an interim basis, where she “fell in love with the administrative side” of medicine. Kortkamp said working as a ...
As Thanksgiving feasts are shared Thursday across Lawrence, artists for Lawrence’s Phoenix Gallery have been whipping up a different sort of feast for Friday.
“A feast for your eyes,” Rochelle Marsh, the director of the gallery, said.
After the plates of turkey and trimmings are finished off with rich pies on Thanksgiving, Phoenix Gallery’s Final Friday event will feature a celebration of another ...
A Lawrence man charged with numerous child sex crimes in Douglas County District Court pleaded guilty to two counts of rape as part of a plea agreement Tuesday afternoon, avoiding a jury trial and a possible life sentence.
Adrian Raye Wisdom pleaded guilty to two counts of rape, both level one person felonies, as part of a plea agreement that dropped 13 other charges Wisdom was facing. As the Journal-World ...
In recent years — especially since the onset of the unique social changes sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic around the start of 2020 — the topic of feelings of loneliness and disconnection experienced by younger people has exploded.
The image that many people think of to characterize what has been called an epidemic is a “young person forlornly looking in their phone,” according to Jeffrey Hall, ...
Soccer fans all over the world held their breath, screamed in delight and learned about what kinds of travel plans they would be looking at come summer, as multiple teams qualified for the 2026 FIFA World Cup this week.
From shocking goals in Glasgow that secured Scotland’s first ticket to the tournament since 1990 to the Caribbean countries of Haiti and Curacao celebrating their second and first World Cup ...
