Two former mayors, a former housing authority official and a longtime tech industry worker have advanced to the general election for the Lawrence City Commission after the primary election Tuesday.
Tuesday's primary trimmed a field of 13 candidates for the two City Commission seats down to just four for the Nov. 4 general election. The top four vote-getters, according to the unofficial results posted on the ...
A Texas man who pleaded guilty in February to violently attacking two women and killing a cat as part of a deal with the Douglas County District Attorney’s Office was sentenced to over four years in prison Monday.
The defendant, Aaron Michael Davidson of Tolar, Texas, was convicted in February of three felonies and a misdemeanor after he entered a guilty plea to dismiss rape and sodomy charges, as the ...
Behind the district office for Perry-Lecompton schools, you can open the door to an unassuming hallway and suddenly be surrounded by thousands of books.
This is the Perry-Lecompton Community Library, at 203 West Bridge St. in Perry. It has over 12,000 books, 600 DVDs and 250 puzzles that patrons can choose from — if the library is open.
“Right now we’re only open 15 hours a week,” said Mary Guffey, the ...
Just a few days out from Tuesday's primary election in the Lawrence City Commission race, the Douglas County clerk says the current turnout for early voting is "fairly normal" for an off-year primary at around 2%.
County Clerk Jamie Shew said that as of Friday morning, 734 people had cast early votes in person and the county had received 446 mail ballots. Lawrence has about 61,000 eligible voters, Shew said, so ...
The Lawrence City Commission at its meeting next week will consider a property tax abatement for a proposed senior housing development that would add affordable housing in west Lawrence.
On Tuesday, the commission will hold a public hearing and consider whether to provide Resource Housing Group Inc. a 10-year, 65% property tax abatement for the Peaks of Lawrence development — a 42-unit, mixed-income housing ...
Two things Lawrence resident Gary Webber is a big supporter of are the Sunset Hill neighborhood and Lawrence Transit.
Webber said he read an article two years ago about the Self Engineering Leadership Fellows Program, or SELF, at the University of Kansas, which created a design for a bus bench. As a carpenter, he thought building a new bench using that design could be a way to give back to Lawrence Transit and ...
