When police stopped Rodney Marshall on Kansas Highway 10 after a chase that reached 100 mph, prosecutor Eve Kemple said Thursday, “he immediately began spontaneously talking.”
He talked about having killed two men, Kemple said: Shelby McCoy and William D. O’Brien. He talked about his belief that they were “diaper-dippers, or child molesters,” she said, and told investigators where to find a list of ...
For years now, residents of University Place have been afraid of losing their neighborhood’s history. And earlier this year, Pam Burkhead said, that fear became more real than ever.
The neighborhood to the southeast of the University of Kansas campus was worried that Lawrence’s new land development code would let potentially historic homes be torn down and dense new developments be built in their place. So ...
Lawrence city leaders voiced support on Tuesday for a proposed fire and medical funding formula that’s intended to result in a more stable split between the city and the county.
The City Commission heard a presentation from Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical about its proposed new funding formula. The two governments have historically split the costs of the joint department based on levels of fire vs. EMS ...
As Lawrence city leaders work out how to pay for the fire department’s planned expansion, local law enforcement officers have a request for them: Don’t cut police to fund it.
“Public safety is not one-sided, and it should not be funded that way,” Lt. Amy Rhoads of the Lawrence Police Department told the City Commission during its conversation on the 2027 budget on Tuesday night. She was one of a dozen ...
A giant sunflower and the points of a new compass rose were taking shape on Saturday afternoon at Lawrence Regional Airport north of town. Volunteers drew the geometry of the compass rose on Friday, and painting began on Saturday.
Craig Owens has spent his whole career looking for challenges – from blue-collar factory communities to suburbs to a densely packed city in Missouri with nearly 50 high-rises.
The place he finally found the “capstone” challenge for his career was Lawrence.
“I have joked, 'I came here for challenge, and I got it," Owens told the Journal-World this past week, his final week at work as city manager. ...
