A group of Haskell Indian Nations University students have requested a meeting with President Donald Trump to urge that the Feb. 14 layoffs at the university be rescinded.
"Order the School Year to be completed as planned," dozens of cross country and track and field student-athletes asked in a written statement to Trump. "We humbly request you review the Future of Haskell."
The students asked Trump, whose ...
A Douglas County courtroom on Monday was nearly full as dozens of people turned out to support a young woman as she confronted the man who "eternally changed" her life with a brutal crime.
"I want you to look at me and know what you did to me," she told Daniel James Garcia-Hernandez, sitting in a blue suit just a few feet from her. "You raped me."
The woman, her mother and her aunt all told Judge Stacey ...
A woman who was critically injured in a motorcycle crash Thursday in North Lawrence is still fighting for her life in a Topeka hospital.
Brooke Mesa Hislar, 27, of Leavenworth, a passenger on the motorcycle, was thrown as the 2009 Yamaha crashed into the back of a Jeep Compass and caught fire during a police chase on North Second Street.
Hislar had never been on a motorcycle before, Donna Sinyard, who ...
Updated at 12:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 28
The driver of a speeding — and allegedly stolen — motorcycle that crashed Thursday on North Second Street, seriously injuring a woman, was charged Friday with multiple felonies.
Dillon Paul Herken, 26, of Easton, was arrested immediately after the fiery crash and was charged a day later with aggravated battery, flee and elude, theft of a motorcycle, unlawful vehicle ...
A 22-year-old Eudora man was sentenced on Thursday to 14 months in prison, suspended to probation, for threatening a group of teenagers who were visiting Lawrence from Franklin County last spring.
The teens testified at an October preliminary hearing for defendant Corey Newman that Newman, who appeared to be intoxicated, had pulled a gun and pointed it at them late at night as they sat in a car in downtown ...
Updated at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 27
A Douglas County judge on Thursday sentenced a former Lawrence Community Shelter resident to 57 months in prison in the strangulation death of another shelter resident last summer.
But before Judge Amy Hanley announced her sentence, defendant George Miller — crying and at times unable to speak about the drunken attack that killed his "best friend" — addressed the ...
