Updated at 2:20 p.m. Wednesday Multiple emergency vehicles responded Wednesday morning to a neighborhood in North Lawrence where a car had crashed into a house. The incident occurred shortly before 9 a.m. at 602 Elm St., where a black SUV with broken windows could be seen lodged into the west side of the yellow bungalow-style house, with a home air-conditioning unit crumpled alongside. An ambulance was seen ...
When Lawrence resident Robert Jackson found himself “pretty much homeless” last winter, he was thankful to find a local hotel that, through a city program, was providing shelter for homeless people. But the warm room wasn’t exactly free. The price? He’d have to give up his dog to stay there. The thought was unthinkable. Jackson’s dog Webster, a young Labrador/hound mix, had been his constant ...
A 31-year-old man was taken into police custody Friday morning after he allegedly shattered at least three windows in a downtown business. The incident occurred around 8:30 a.m. at the southeast corner of Eighth and Vermont streets, where the office of Paul Werner Architects is located. Multiple police vehicles responded to the scene, and officers were seen arresting a man and placing him in a police car. ...
Summer is always Just Food’s busiest season — a time of year when the community’s need for food assistance increases — and this summer the lingering coronavirus pandemic has made it even busier. “Kids being out of school is a big challenge for folks with families,” said Elizabeth Keever, Just Food’s executive director, noting that people typically face increased food costs when their kids aren’t ...
A peaceful day fishing turned traumatic Saturday afternoon as a Lawrence woman rescued a drowning boy from Clinton Lake. The woman, Mandy Dreiling, said she had taken her 9-year-old son, Jesse Spates, to the lake for its “free fishing” day. They had just settled in with their new poles and fresh bait along the cove near Clinton Marina when she spotted a young boy playing in the water. As she looked for ...
From a distance the exhibit wall of the Lawrence Public Library looks like a display wall in a Laura Ashley store — with its neat row of children’s dresses in an array of pastel and floral fabrics. But get closer and you see that the dresses — meant to honor Kansas women — are made of something far more prosaic: paper maps. The dress patterns aren’t blossoms and leaves and vines, but interstates, ...