Story updated at 8:41 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023: Citing a lack of evidence, the Douglas County District Attorney's office has decided to "cease prosecution" of a woman who was accused of killing a baby in 2016 at a Eudora day care where she worked. District Attorney Suzanne Valdez ...
A KU aerospace engineering student who died in a car accident in central Kansas just days before Christmas was passionate about lab work and weightlifting and known for his uplifting personality, his mother told the Journal-World on Friday. "He was the hype guy," Ericka Lysell said of her son ...
The City of Lawrence is set to begin a yearlong pilot program that will make city buses free to ride in 2023. All Lawrence Transit services will be free beginning Monday, Jan. 2, including the city’s regular fixed-route bus service, paratransit service, the Night Line and the new ...
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly has signed an executive order banning the use of the social media platform TikTok on all state-owned devices for Kansas executive branch agencies, boards, and commissions and their respective employees, and prohibiting access on the state network. Kelly's order is in ...
A pair of Lawrence business owners have donated thousands of dollars to help support the city’s emergency shelter for people experiencing homelessness. Just before Christmas Eve, Tom and Marilyn Dobski donated $10,000 to the Douglas County Community Foundation to help support the ...
A crowd gathered on Wednesday afternoon to celebrate Chanukah by lighting the community menorah at the Lawrence Public Library. Chanukah began on Dec. 18 and continues through Dec. 26. The menorah-lighting event was organized by the KU Chabad Center for Jewish Life.