While cleanup at the former Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant is “slowing down,” the U.S. Army is seeking additional funding to investigate contamination from a group of "forever chemicals" near a former fire station on the property. The former ammunition plant is located in northwest ...
A Douglas County judge on Thursday ordered a 38-year-old Lawrence man to stand trial for rape after a woman testified that the man, a close friend, had assaulted her at his apartment last year. The 30-year-old woman, who sobbed and shook as she testified, said the assault occurred in June ...
A mistake was made, and what ensued was not a great look for local government., Last week, the city of Lawrence’s Affordable Housing Advisory Board met to begin the process of awarding about $700,000 of taxpayer funds to affordable housing projects. Step. No. 1 of the process is to determine ...
TOPEKA — At 94 years, the Kansas GOP’s streak of one-party dominance in Senate races is the nation’s longest because even in the toughest years, disaffected Republican-leaning voters have reliably drifted back to the party’s fold before Election Day. But Republicans fear this year ...
Former Kansas Rep. Larry Hibbard, a Greenwood County farmer and rancher who served in the House from 2013 to 2019, died Sunday. He was 81. A moderate Republican from Toronto, he helped overturn Republican Gov. Sam Brownback’s state income tax experiment and backed Democratic Gov. Laura ...
Jeffrey “Chubby” Smith loved to perform – in so many different bands that his partner, Julie Mulvihill, can’t remember them all. He loved to create, building wild “Frankenstein” guitars with names like "Steakhouse Firebird." And, he really loved to hear other musicians play ...
