“You can use whichever bathroom you choose,” and if someone is threatening you or harassing you for that, you can call the police.
That was the message that Lawrence Police Chief Rich Lockhart delivered to Lawrence’s LGBTQ community at a PFLAG meeting Wednesday evening at the Lawrence Public Library.
That’s because SB 180 — Kansas’ new law that bars transgender people from using restrooms and other ...
So many people wanted to be in “Something Rotten!” — Theatre Lawrence’s season finale — that an extra night of auditions had to be scheduled.
That didn’t surprise Jamie Ulmer too much.
After all, Ulmer, the theater’s new executive director, has been in show business for 25 years; he knows how strong the pull of a catchy musical can be for folks itching to sing and dance.
And “Something ...
Lawrence Mayor Lisa Larsen on Thursday vowed to personally “fight tooth and nail” against laws that dehumanize the LGBTQ community in Lawrence.
Speaking at a PFLAG-sponsored event at the Lawrence Public Library, Larsen shared her thoughts specifically on SB 180, a new law taking effect on July 1 that bans transgender people from using bathrooms and other gender-specific facilities associated with their ...
Updated at 11:35 a.m. Wednesday, May 31
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment has issued a stream advisory for the Kansas River in Lawrence after a faulty pump resulted in contaminated wastewater being discharged into the river.
Trevor Flynn, assistant director of Municipal Services and Operations for the City of Lawrence, told the Journal-World that it was not yet known precisely how much discharge ...
The Douglas County District Attorney’s Office failed to notify multiple women that the man who viciously raped and beat them would likely be getting out of prison decades earlier than expected. The reason the office didn’t tell them? It decided the women were better off not knowing.
District Attorney Suzanne Valdez’s office didn’t want to open old wounds, it said after being confronted by the women on ...
Two Lawrence-based entities are facing criticism in connection with a brutal rape case in which the rapist’s sentence was reduced by 30 years and victims contend that they weren’t notified.
The Douglas County District Attorney’s Office and the University of Kansas Law School Project for Innocence and Post Conviction Remedies are both facing questions after the sentence of rapist Cory Elkins, who was ...
