Free State Brewery owner Chuck Magerl was out clearing snow and ice off the restaurant's sidewalk Monday, but he did not have much company as most restaurants and businesses downtown were closed after the weekend storm.
Magerl's brewery was closed as well. He said between suppliers not being able to reach downtown and employees having difficulties getting to work, it didn't make much sense to open Monday, but ...
Updated at 4:35 p.m. Monday, Jan. 6
Most of us sat snug inside our homes over the weekend as a blizzard made travel nearly impossible, but that wasn't an option for essential hospital staff, who had to care for patients and be on hand for winter emergencies.
A Lawrence police officer, Hayden Fowler, used his personal vehicle on his own time to get nine members of LMH Health's nursing staff in for the overnight ...
A Kansas City, Kansas, man on Friday was ordered to stand trial for aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon and aggravated burglary for his alleged role in a June 30, 2022, home invasion in Lawrence.
Markcus Trey Sanders, 30, is accused of robbing a woman at gunpoint, along with his uncle, Chester Brockman, 52, who has already been convicted in the case and is serving a 17-year sentence.
Judge Stacey Donovan ...
A double murder case took a surprising turn Thursday when a Douglas County judge, with evident dismay, granted a continuance just a few days before the trial was set to begin and after more than 100 potential jurors had been summoned.
“I’m frustrated,” Judge Amy Hanley said at a hearing for the defendant, Rodney Marshall, whose trial will now be next spring instead of next Monday. “I don’t want to ...
At age 90, Freda Pickman finally received a Christmas gift she never got as a little girl: a much longed-for doll.
The gift came this week courtesy of her 21-year-old granddaughter, Lola Niccum, of Lawrence, who had heard her grandma say that she had always wanted a doll as a kid, but only ever got what a struggling, Depression-era family could afford: a single orange or, maybe in a better year, a pair of plain ...
A man accused of breaking a Lawrence police officer's nose has been charged with three crimes in the case and has been ordered to undergo a competency exam to see whether he is fit to stand trial.
The officer is recovering and hopes to be back on the streets before the New Year, the Journal-World has learned. Laura McCabe, a spokeswoman for the Lawrence Police Department, said Tuesday that surgeons had ...
