Voter turnout in Tuesday's elections in Douglas County was nearly 25% — similar to the past few off-year elections — according to the unofficial data from the Douglas County Clerk's Office. With 100% of precincts reporting on Tuesday night, voter turnout was at 24.2% in the unofficial results. They showed 19,468 ballots cast out of 80,393 registered voters in the county. Douglas County Clerk Jamie Shew ...
Invasive species. Wild mushrooms. Plants that people might think of as weeds. It may seem “taboo or off-limits” at first to eat these things, said Amy Bousman of the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, but guests might change their minds about them on Sunday when the department's Wild Foods Cook-Off comes to the Baker Wetlands Discovery Center. “It's a really fun, nonthreatening way to interact with ...
As Mateo Clavel Wills' sentencing neared in a sex crime case that involved two preschool-age girls, one of the girls told her mom she'd like to be there in court that day. She was afraid, but she also wanted talk to the judge about Wills. The young girl's request, which her mom passed on to Judge Sally Pokorny on Thursday, was for Wills to stay in prison for a long time: “I just wish he would stay in there ...
Renter protections, affordability and the city's $130 million public works campus were among the big topics that Lawrence City Commission candidates discussed at a forum on Thursday evening, just days before the election. The forum at the Douglas County Fairgrounds was less than a week out from election day, and it was hosted by the Sexual Trauma and Abuse CARE Center. All four of the candidates in the running ...
As the city prepares to roll out more Narcan vending machines, Misty Bosch-Hastings wants Lawrence to see them and think not of stereotypes, but of real people. People like her father, Randy Bosch, who died of an overdose 20 years ago. His name and a list of many others will soon be on the vending machines in the form of stickers dedicated to “the lives we couldn't save.” Bosch-Hastings, director of the ...
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 ...