"There's a toxic culture at Haskell, period."
This assessment by Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury, D-New Mexico, was repeated in varying words over and over Tuesday in the nation's capital — by witnesses and lawmakers alike — during a bipartisan hearing that was sparked by a recent federal report detailing a university culture plagued by mismanagement and "severely lacking (in) process and procedures," as ...
Two of the three Democratic candidates running for Douglas County district attorney left the stage of a candidate forum that turned heated Saturday after an audience member made accusations against current DA Suzanne Valdez.
Valdez left the forum’s stage and did not return to participate in the question-and-answer session, while the second candidate, Tonda Hill, left but then returned to participate in the ...
A Douglas County judge on Wednesday denied a defendant’s motion to suppress Snapchat evidence in a case in which he is accused of sexually targeting numerous pre-teen girls at a Lawrence school.
The alleged crimes of defendant Kenneth Soap, 44, of Lawrence, came to light after a teacher in January 2023 happened to overhear four female students at Liberty Memorial Central Middle School discussing a man calling ...
A 100-foot dragon in the Flint Hills is likely to turn a lot of heads this summer, but for the Lawrence artist who made it, the fiery creature is much more than a roadside attraction.
"It's a perfect meeting of East and West," Hong Zhang says of the massive hay-bale installation — and of dragons generally. 2024 is the Year of the Dragon in China, where Zhang is from, but she has lived for 20 years in Kansas, ...
Updated at 10:11 a.m. Wednesday, July 10
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against the City of Lawrence and others brought by a man who says his First Amendment rights were trampled when he was trespassed last year from the city-supported homeless camp in North Lawrence. On Tuesday, the same day the dismissal was filed, the man angrily used the N-word to belittle Lawrence's mayor at a public meeting.
As ...
A story about the fussily curated world of online influencers could not be more 2024, but Lawrence author Amanda Sellet actually reached back 80 years — to a more black-and-white era, as it were — for the true inspiration for her latest novel.
Called “Hate to Fake It to You,” Sellet’s first book for adults is a modern adaptation of the 1945 Barbara Stanwyck film “Christmas in Connecticut,” a ...
