Lawrence police on Wednesday were still looking for a driver who crashed into a van and a house, then fled on foot, leaving three people injured. The incident happened about 11:30 p.m. Tuesday near Ninth and Missouri streets, police said in a social media post. The driver of a Volkswagen ...
A Douglas County judge has ordered a competency evaluation for a man charged with fatally stabbing a 35-year-old Lawrence woman last summer. The public defender for Aaron Blake Wright filed a motion for the evaluation last week, and Judge Amy Hanley granted it on Wednesday. The evaluation is ...
State law requires residents of a county to be notified of a lot of different legal matters that are underway at any given time. That includes pending foreclosures of homes, new ordinances proposed by local governments, legal name changes of your neighbors, and even the sales that dispose of ...
City Commissioners approved an updated agreement that will tweak the work for key stormwater projects near downtown Lawrence and opted to not make changes to the project timeline ahead of the World Cup. The commission voted unanimously to execute a change order of around $4.8 million to ...
The Lawrence City Commission voted Tuesday night to uphold a decision that would deny a preliminary development plan for an apartment complex that would have featured 200 units along a portion of the golf course at the Jayhawk Club. Commissioners voted 4-1 to uphold a recommendation from the ...
Douglas County commissioners will consider buying a 23-acre parcel on Wednesday next to Lone Star Lake Park to improve park access. According to a memo included in the agenda, county staff have spent the past several months evaluating the long-term public value, cost, and compatibility of a ...
