New signs that read “No Overnight Camping Allowed” were installed in North Lawrence between the Kansas River and the river levee last week, and the city’s Parks and Recreation Department says they are a direct response to neighborhood complaints about “disruptive noise and overnight ...
Douglas County commissioners on Wednesday will hear a follow-up presentation on a remodel of the Judicial and Law Enforcement Center that could cost more than $125 million. The architecture firm overseeing the remodel, TreanorHL, has spent 10 months in the planning phase of a project aimed at ...
Lawrence residents who are willing to make the trip to Kansas City, Kansas, on Friday for a blood drive benefiting LMH Health’s blood supplier will get a free ticket to a soccer match later the same evening in Lawrence. The Community Blood Center of Greater Kansas City, which provides the ...
A Lawrence man allegedly told police that he had downloaded “maybe a handful” of pornographic images of young girls to use for sexual gratification, according to a recently released police affidavit. The man, Joseph Alexander Dibben, 22, has been charged in Douglas County District Court ...
Charges have been refiled against a Lawrence man in connection with an overdose death and multiple other overdose injuries, and he was re-arrested in the case on Friday, according to Douglas County Jail and Douglas County District Court records. The man, Benjamin L. Mims, 36, of Lawrence, is ...
TOPEKA — After declaring themselves a united family, “like brothers and sisters,” the top Republicans in the Kansas Legislature announced they will work together to resurrect and pass a massive flat tax plan in the first weeks of the upcoming legislative session. “I may be a little bit ...