The Lawrence Arts Center, which recently sent a desperate fundraising plea to the community, has laid off a number of employees, according to the center's board chair.
Meredith Lang, the chair, told the Journal-World Friday evening that the center had recently "reduced salaried staff by seven individuals." Though she declined to name the positions held by those employees, she said that they all had worked ...
After six hours of deliberation over two days, a Douglas County jury on Wednesday found a Lawrence man who crashed into a restaurant two years ago guilty of multiple crimes, including two counts of aggravated battery and multiple counts of drunk and reckless driving.
Brandon Vess, 31, crashed his SUV into the Big Mill restaurant at 900 Mississippi St. on Nov. 4, 2022, injuring three people inside and causing ...
Updated at 5:05 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 4
A jury is now deliberating the case of a 31-year-old Lawrence man who is accused of drunkenly slamming his SUV into Big Mill restaurant and injuring three people on Nov. 4, 2022.
Defense attorney Nicholas Hayes on Tuesday morning attempted to convince the jury that "something else" was to blame for the crash — not the actions of his client, Brandon Vess. Hayes raised the ...
"If it wasn't for the concrete pillar that stopped the car," Joe Whalen doubts that he'd be here today, he told a Douglas County jury Monday.
Whalen and two others — his daughter and her college roommate — were dining at a corner table at Big Mill restaurant on Ninth Street on Nov. 4, 2022. Whalen had driven down from Chicago to celebrate KU's Dads Weekend with his freshman daughter. As the trio and two ...
A mom who lost her 29-year-old son to suicide in Lawrence last year is asking people to perform acts of kindness on the upcoming anniversary of his death.
Gayla Kelly's only son, Logan Zane, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound sometime between Feb. 19, when he wrote a suicide note, and Feb. 25, when his body was discovered in a wooded area near the Kansas River.
"That was a week of pure hell that began this ...
A Lawrence woman who was accused of stealing money from a resident in an elder care facility was given probation Wednesday in Douglas County District Court and was ordered to repay her victim.
Honesty Trussell — originally charged with felony mistreatment of a dependent adult or elder person and felony theft — pleaded no contest in December 2024, as part of a deal with the state, to a single felony count of ...
