If you see the snowy white head of a bald eagle soaring over the Kansas River, you are looking at an elite survivor, or nature’s equivalent of an Olympic athlete, as eagle expert Scott Mehus puts it. That’s because bald eagles don’t get their signature white plumage until they’re 5 or 6 years old, and if they’ve made it that far they’ve beaten tremendous odds, considering that 70% to 80% die before ...
A shooting Wednesday that left a 23-year-old Lawrence man in critical condition was "for all intents and purposes an accident" about which the suspect in the case "feels terrible," a defense attorney told a Douglas County judge Friday afternoon while attempting, unsuccessfully, to secure an own-recognizance bond for his client. The two are friends, and "there is no animosity" between the injured man and ...
The sudden loss of nearly a third of its workforce has shaken up the Haskell Indian Nations University campus, creating confusion and uncertainty about the school's future, and federal lawmakers who once seemed invested in "fixing" Haskell have said little about the situation. Among the concerns is what will happen to the academic courses that were taught by seven instructors before they were fired on Friday ...
As a polar vortex has kept Lawrence in its grip, the city's Homeless Solutions Division says it has been able to provide warmth and shelter to anyone seeking it, and that includes pets. "Nobody has died, and that's pretty amazing," the division's director, Misty Bosch-Hastings, told the Journal-World Wednesday, when high temperatures remained in the single digits with below-zero wind chills. It's not something ...
A collective of Haskell Indian Nations University students, alumni and former faculty are calling for the reinstatement of the recently fired — for the second time — cross country coach who has for years been at the center of investigations into the university. The students want coach Clay Mayes, who was laid off Friday along with dozens of other Haskell employees, to be reinstated immediately. Mayes, as ...
A significant number of Haskell Indian Nations University employees were laid off Friday pursuant to an order by President Donald Trump to cut the federal work force, the Journal-World has learned. According to a source close to Haskell, around 38 employees have been let go, out of approximately 150 employed there. Those people include a range of personnel. At least seven people on the list were instructors. ...