Lawrence resident Julian Moreno did not follow the typical path from high school to accomplished scholar.
Instead of going straight to college, he joined the U.S. Marine Corps, and a few years after that he married and started a family.
The uncommon path has taken longer, but it has led to uncommon success for Moreno, a 25-year-old University of Kansas student who recently won a prestigious Astronaut ...
Multiple fire crews and police vehicles responded to an afternoon fire at an apartment complex just east of The Oread hotel.
People at the scene, 1145 Louisiana St., indicated that a passerby sometime around 3 p.m. had seen flames erupting from a laundry room area at the basement level and shooting up to two stories above.
Zane Morgan, a battalion chief with Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical, told the ...
Every house, whether humble or grand, has a story.
Something about it is interesting: the way it was built, a thing that happened there, someone who lived there, someone who died there.
Krista Barbour knew this from owning her own 117-year-old house in Old West Lawrence, but it wasn’t until she started spending a lot of time outdoors during the coronavirus pandemic that it truly dawned on her how many of ...
A suspect in an hourslong police incident Sunday was still at large Monday, after a lengthy pursuit through downtown Lawrence and a manhunt kept an East Lawrence neighborhood on edge.
Dozens of law enforcement personnel from the Lawrence Police Department and the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office descended on the neighborhood around New York Elementary School on Sunday evening as they searched for a driver who ...
Updated at 9 a.m. Monday
A suspect in a police chase who fled on foot through an East Lawrence neighborhood Sunday evening is still at large, Lawrence police said Monday morning.
Police had few other details to provide, citing yet to be completed reports in the investigation, but did share this additional information Monday morning:
The pursuit began about 7 p.m. Sunday, when officers were dispatched to The ...
The Forrest Gump comparisons are legion but not altogether apt. For one, accomplished runner Stan Cottrell is not running across the country because he’s bereft. On the contrary, he’s downright bubbly.
For another, he’s not 38; he’s 78. He’s been running his whole life — about 270,000 miles total, he says — and he’s not likely to just one day tire of it and go home.
“Just because you reach a ...
