A Douglas County District Court judge has expressed concern about the District Attorney’s Office becoming “crossways with all of the law enforcement in the entire county” and appeared to side at least partially and for the time being with the sheriff in his dispute with the DA.
Judge Sally Pokorny made the comment Monday at a hearing regarding Douglas County Sheriff Jay Armbrister’s motion to quash a ...
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Organizers of Art in the Park were shocked Saturday morning to discover that a number of paintings had been stolen overnight from one of the festival participants at the annual event, and they are offering a reward for the return of the artwork.
Maria Martin, president of the Lawrence Art Guild, which hosts Art in the Park, told the Journal-World Monday that the event had been ...
While most University of Kansas students are gearing up for midterms and celebrating the KU football team, one group of students — those from Iran — are losing sleep and agonizing over the fate of loved ones back home.
“Everyone is distracted from their education and classes and projects. … It's really hard for us to go to sleep at night because there are always new people being killed and arrested,” ...
Jared Martin has learned a number of things while playing the lead role in Theatre Lawrence's "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert."
One of them, he says, is that "wearing 4-inch stilettos and running around is hard." (Or, as RuPaul has more pointedly put it, "Drag ain't for sissies.")
"Priscilla," the stage adaptation of the 1994 Australian road-trip movie, isn't Martin's first time performing in drag — that was ...
When Sarah Lynch-Chaput’s beloved dog Sam died, she wanted to do something special in his memory, so she did something she thought he’d love.
“We decided to start fostering to help other dogs that were like him,” she said.
Lynch-Chaput and her husband, Cade Chaput, had adopted Sam, an Australian cattle dog, from a Topeka animal shelter in 2013, when he was 4 or 5 years old. When he died last year, they ...
It’s hard to get Lisa McCleary to say much about the gold medal she won earlier this month at the Special Olympics in Orlando, Florida.
Like any elite competitor, the champion bowler is focused on the next challenge: the 2026 Games.
“I would like to do it again — in four years in Minnesota,” she said.
The 31-year-old Linwood resident who bowls with the Douglas County Jayhawks team at Lawrence’s ...
