Cyclists will be able to ride nearly 100 miles of uninterrupted trail in eastern Kansas thanks to a new bridge near Ottawa. The Flint Hills Trail runs from Osawatomie to Council Grove. It offers views of riverside bluffs, woods, rolling farmland and the largest remaining tallgrass prairie ...
A Douglas County judge on Wednesday sentenced a Lawrence man to nearly five years in prison for attempted rape of a child in a case that dates back nearly two decades. The defendant, Lance Lee Yoder, 55, was convicted on April 1 after pleading no contest as part of a deal with the state that ...
The summer season is sometimes dreaming season at the state’s universities, and KU has added the idea of a multimillion-dollar center to spur the production of energy in Kansas to its wish list. A request for $10 million in state funding to help create the Kansas Center for Energy ...
A man who refused to surrender his hatchet last year when entering The Village and who terrorized staff by smashing an office window was sentenced to two years of probation on Wednesday. The man, Jesse Lee Green, 39, was originally charged in Douglas County District Court with one felony ...
The first-ever “July 4th Freedom Fest: Celebrate and Defend Our Constitution” will celebrate the rights and freedoms under the U.S. Constitution while providing an entertaining outing in Lawrence on Independence Day. The event will be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday, July 4, at the East ...
The Bureau of Indian Education has remained silent on a federal investigation that found an athletic trainer sexually harassed student-athletes on the women’s basketball team at Haskell Indian Nations University. According to the Office of the Inspector General in the U.S. Department of the ...
