While sentencing a teen to 10 years in prison on Friday for murdering a 17-year-old boy last summer, Judge Stacey Donovan took a moment to note how many people in the courtroom had tears in their eyes.
"It's a horrible day for everyone," Donovan told the assembled friends and loved ones of both teens: 19-year-old Cir Allen Keith Glover and 17-year-old Isaiah Neal.
Glover, who will turn 20 on Saturday, pleaded ...
Lawrence commissioners approved an incentive package that will allow for the development of the historic Reuter building in downtown Lawrence, saying they hope it can revitalize a long vacant building.
The commissioners voted 4-0 on numerous items Tuesday night that give developers incentives to redevelop the Reuter Organ building, 612 New Hampshire St., and its adjacent property at 614-616 New Hampshire St. in ...
Leaders with the nonprofit that helps staff the state’s suicide prevention crisis line told supporters at its Breakfast of Hope event Monday that it is starting to stabilize and grow after a tumultuous year.
Walter Way, HeadQuarters Kansas’ former interim director, addressed several dozen Lawrence residents and leaders Monday morning to share updates from the nonprofit, which answers calls that come from ...
When Kim Andrews was in high school, she learned for the first time about a literally explosive family story — one that she has been working to tell, on and off, for the past 30 years.
Andrews, on a trip with her father to Topeka, met with a cousin who took them up to a farm site on Perry Lake in Jefferson County. Once there, she learned about three deaths that occurred on her great-grandfather’s farm in ...
Lawrence city commissioners will consider approving an incentive package next week that would allow for the redevelopment of the historic Reuter building in downtown Lawrence.
Commissioners will hold a public hearing on Tuesday for a package that could provide a variety of incentives to redevelop the former Reuter Organ building and its adjacent property at 612 New Hampshire St. and 614-616 New Hampshire St. in ...
A U.S. district judge has ruled in favor of the Lawrence Public Library in a federal lawsuit from a frequent public commenter who claimed library staff violated his free speech rights.
Judge Julie Robinson granted summary judgment in favor of the library in a federal lawsuit Wednesday from former Lawrence resident Justin Spiehs that was filed in 2023.
Robinson found that some of Spiehs’ complaints ...
