The area manager of a local restaurant was sentenced to probation Thursday in Douglas County District Court for his role in the fentanyl death of his best friend, a 32-year-old Lawrence father of two.
At the hearing, Robert Leeroy Hall, 35, the area manager for Jefferson’s Restaurant, apologized to the family of Michael Aron Howell, who died on Oct. 8, 2021, after taking a fentanyl pill provided by Hall, who ...
The past week has been a winter wonderland for Lawrence residents given to building with snow.
One especially ambitious family spent the weekend erecting a 21-foot tall snowman in North Lawrence. It took two days and some help from a backhoe, but by Sunday afternoon, the six-segment creature — dubbed Frosty 2.0 — was standing tall in the 200 block of Lyon Street with a carrot nose and two eyes made out of ...
A former University of Kansas professor who was prosecuted for wire fraud and making false statements has filed a federal lawsuit against KU to get his job back, along with back wages and compensation for damage to his reputation.
Feng (Franklin) Tao, a Chinese-born researcher, was hired in 2014 as a tenured associate professor in chemical engineering. Five years later he was arrested under the Department of ...
A former Kickapoo Tribal Council chairman and ex-regent for Haskell Indian Nations University has been banished from the Kickapoo Tribe after he pleaded guilty to numerous crimes Friday, including attempted homicide and arson.
The sentence of banishment means that the former regent, Lester Randall, is "considered legally dead and a nonentity to the Kickapoo Tribe," according to a news release from the ...
The snowfall overnight Thursday caused minimal disruption compared with the foot of snow that blanketed Lawrence at the beginning of the week, but it was enough to complicate driving and to close area schools once again.
Lawrence schools have been closed every day this week except for Thursday.
The Lawrence area received around 3 inches of snow, measured at Clinton Lake, according to meteorologist Kyle Poage ...
Around 2010 when Raven Rajani was looking to adopt a dog, a tiny female puppy at a rural animal shelter in Arkansas caught her eye.
Rajani had been looking online at loads of cuddly rescues with melt-your-heart puppy faces and wiggly tails. She would come away thinking “well, that's cute!”
But then, for some reason, she’d scroll back to the Staffordshire terrier in Arkansas named Dolores — the Spanish ...
