Recently unionized workers at the Lawrence Community Shelter have publicly announced their bargaining demands, including that they be paid $30 an hour, which represents about an 85% pay raise.
Currently, the pay rate for hourly workers is $16.25 for day and evening staff and $17.25 for overnight staff, Bella Kurtz, a union member, told the Journal-World Monday.
The workers say their demands will help improve ...
Four residents were displaced after an early-morning house fire in Old West Lawrence Thursday.
The fire, reported at 3:35 a.m., was extinguished quickly, and an investigator determined that the cause was "electrical in nature." No one was injured in the fire, but one firefighter with Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical was evaluated at the scene for minor injuries, according to a news release from the ...
The charm of “A Christmas Story,” most seem to agree, is in its nostalgia — for America just before World War II and for childhood generally, when a longed-for gift like a Red Ryder Carbine Action BB gun can hold the promise of an exciting new life.
“The movie came out in 1983 when I was the age of the main character, Ralphie,” says Chris McCoy, who’s directing Theatre Lawrence’s production of the ...
A lot has changed in 70-year-old Rachel Reed’s lifetime, but one thing has remained disturbingly constant: violence against transgender people.
Even in a period of seeming progress for the LGBTQ+ community with the recognition of gay marriage and increasing visibility in the past few decades, dozens of transgender people are murdered every year in the U.S. — a number that Reed believes is vastly ...
Updated at 4:35 p.m. Monday, Nov. 13
The chief financial officer for LMH Health, who was hired and fired in the space of a month after failing to disclose his criminal history, “took elaborate steps to conceal his true work history and criminal record,” the Lawrence hospital said Friday as it sought to assure the public that it was investigating the matter and indicated that it would be as transparent as ...
The Lawrence Police Department's patrol service dogs are scheduled to be featured on a nationally televised talk show this week, and the public is invited to a local watch party to celebrate.
LPD's Patrol Service Dog Mack and his handler, Cpl. Kevin Henderson, along with Friends of the K9 Vest Midwest founder Emily Fawcett, will appear via Skype on "The Kelly Clarkson Show." The segment is about how LPD's three ...
