A man who pleaded no contest to lesser charges after originally being charged with raping a 9-year-old girl was sentenced on Tuesday to probation in Douglas County District Court.
Judge Amy Hanley sentenced Tyrone Gipson Jr. to a total of 30 months in prison for two counts of aggravated assault, which she then suspended to 24 months of probation based on state sentencing guidelines. Before he took the plea ...
Things look cheery from the outside at the little red schoolhouse at 645 Alabama St. — now with a colorful street mural in front of it — but for a while now, the finances of the Lawrence Community Nursery School haven't been as sunny.
The co-op preschool, which was founded in 1948, has seen a number of hurdles in recent years, including fewer families enrolling and a greater need for scholarships among ...
In a marathon meeting that included more than an hour of public comments, planning commissioners on Wednesday took a step requested by the developers of the New Boston Crossing project — but made it clear that there's still much to be figured out about the proposed development south of the South Lawrence Trafficway.
The developers requested a change to a land use map in the city-county comprehensive plan, ...
When guests walked into Thursday's food policy workshop at the Douglas County Fairgrounds, Emily Lysen of the Lawrence Farmers Market greeted each one and reminded them that "everybody is a part of the food system."
And then, when everyone was seated, she got out a ball of pink yarn and began to illustrate that.
The crowd had all been asked to pick up lanyards labeled with different roles, such as growers, ...
A new type of zoning for “very high density” housing now is a step closer to being approved in Lawrence for the first time ever.
On Wednesday night, the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission voted unanimously to recommend that the City Commission rezone four properties in the Oread neighborhood from their current zoning category of R-4, or high density residential, to R-5, or very high density ...
The taste of victory was sweet on Tuesday night for staff at the Clinton Water Treatment Plant as they accepted the trophy for the top tap water in the state of Kansas.
The city learned in September that the plant had won the best-tasting tap water award, which is given by the Kansas section of the American Water Works Association and the Kansas Water Environment Association. But it wasn't until Tuesday night's ...
