A 72-year-old woman was critically injured in a crash in eastern Lawrence on Friday evening, Lawrence police said. Emergency personnel responded at about 7 p.m. Friday to the crash near 23rd Street and Silicon Avenue, according to scanner traffic. Lawrence police Sgt. Drew Fennelly told the ...
Topeka — When it comes to cybersecurity, most Kansas counties are behind. Overall, only eight county websites end in .gov, a domain extension that’s only given to governments. Most of Kansas’ 105 counties, including Douglas County, have websites ending in .org or .com. And 60 ...
Lawrence police are planning a spring launch of a special victims unit to investigate sex crimes — a change that comes after the department was drawn into controversy in the fall over the handling of a rape report. Other changes in procedure now require LPD’s investigations division to ...
A man who some have argued was wrongly convicted in a Lawrence rape case could see a new trial. The Kansas Court of Appeals has remanded the case to Douglas County District Court for a hearing to determine whether Albert N. Wilson was deprived of effective counsel. Wilson, now 24, was ...
The City of Lawrence has hired a University of Kansas alumnus to serve as the city's manager of transit and parking. The city announced the hiring of Adam Weigel in a news release Friday. The city said it conducted a national recruitment following the departure last fall of Bob Nugent, who had ...
The University of Kansas' annual one-day fundraising drive raised $1,771,135 on Thursday — a new record for the event. Thursday's total was by far the biggest of the "One Day. One KU" campaign's three-year run. The next most successful year was 2019, where donations totaled $1,084,062, ...
TOPEKA — Following a week of testimony from leaders of Kansas’ higher education institutions, subcommittees in both chambers gave strong indications they wouldn’t approve the level of funding university leaders told them they would need to keep tuition rates flat. It wasn't immediately ...
TOPEKA — Kansas business groups have mobilized to snuff out a budding movement among a few cities to ban single-use plastic bags and straws, frustrating environmentalists who can't get the Republican-controlled Legislature to tackle climate issues. The GOP-led House commerce committee on ...
Bishop Seabury Academy’s Academic WorldQuest team is heading off to nationals this spring. The school’s team finished first at the Kansas City, Mo., regional, which was held this week at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, said Leslie McCaffrey, admissions director for Bishop Seabury. ...
TOPEKA — A top Republican lawmaker in Kansas now running for the U.S. Senate sought an ambassadorship in 2018, calling it “an excellent time” to leave state politics and enlisting help from a billionaire casino mogul who is a close friend of President Donald Trump. The Wichita Eagle ...
Lawrence's annual Mardi Gras parade — with its bead-clad participants and brass band — will return to downtown's sidewalks at noon Tuesday. The parade has been a staple in Lawrence since 2007, when a Louisiana family moved to town and started the tradition. Mike West and Katie Euliss ...
The City of Lawrence has been awarded a $3.6 million U.S. Department of Transportation grant to make repairs at Lawrence Municipal Airport. Municipal Services & Operations spokesperson Josh Carson confirmed Thursday that the city was awarded the grant to rehabilitate the primary runway at ...
I’m not sure the last time I found myself at a grocery store at 3 a.m., but I buy my Doritos by the case to avoid such emergency trips. You may want to start taking your own precautions as Hy-Vee has announced it is no longer keeping its stores open 24 hours a day. But, soon, Lawrence’s ...
Solving water scarcity is not an easy task, but students at Lawrence's Southwest Middle School were recognized this week for envisioning a solution to that problem in the future. A group of Southwest students known as Team Lima placed second in the Future City national competition, which was ...
LMH Health posted a nearly $16 million operating loss in 2019, but its separate endowment organization received a record $4.2 million in donations last year — money that will support surgical robots, a new cardiac catheterization lab and several other initiatives. The previous donation ...
The public is invited to see the newly renovated Fire Station No. 1 and watch firefighters demonstrate “turning out” for a call this Saturday at an open house. The entire station will be open, allowing visitors to see all aspects of the $7.14 million renovation, including two additional ...
TOPEKA — Environmentalists are struggling to get lawmakers to even discuss climate change as a serious issue in Kansas, where some leaders of the Republican-controlled Legislature question the widespread scientific consensus that human activity is dangerously warming the planet. States such ...
Story updated at 6:40 p.m. Thursday: TOPEKA — After hearing an emotional apology from Lawrence developer Thomas Fritzel, a U.S. District Court judge on Thursday sentenced him to three months in prison and a $55,000 fine for felony convictions related to illegal disposal of asbestos during a ...
Police and security officers in the University of Kansas' Public Safety Office will see salary increases for the first time since 2016 as part of a new bargaining agreement approved Wednesday by the Kansas Board of Regents. Changes to the agreement between KU and the KU Police Officers ...
TOPEKA — The Kansas Legislature’s auditing division says state agencies have significant information technology security weaknesses and haven't made progress since previous reports showed the same problems. The Topeka Capital Journal reports that more than half of 19 state agencies studied ...
