NEW YORK (AP) — Coronavirus deaths are rising in nearly two-thirds of American states as a winter surge pushes the overall toll toward 400,000 amid warnings that a new, highly contagious variant is taking hold. As Americans observed a national holiday Monday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo ...
Lawrence isn’t an island, Edith Guffey repeated during her keynote address at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day event on Monday. There is this idea that the city is special, she said — a “progressive blue dot” — and that it is somehow different from other parts of the state in how it ...
The director of the city’s visitors bureau has announced his upcoming retirement. Explore Lawrence Director Michael Davidson will retire in the spring, according to a news release. Davidson ends his career after thirty plus years in leadership roles in the tourism industry, including leading ...
As part of their effort to better prioritize their budget decisions, city leaders will soon consider a new scoring guide that would affect how millions of tax dollars are spent. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will consider approving a proposed priority-based ...
Last weekend's Class 6A state debate tournament might not have started well for Lawrence High School, but the school's four-speaker team found a way to make sure it ended well, coach Jeff Plinsky said. After starting the virtual tournament with two wins and four losses during the first round ...
A local arts-based social service organization handed out free lunches to the community Monday as part of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The 18- to 24-year-old students in the Arts Train program at Van Go, 715 New Jersey St., helped prepare the meals under the direction of local chef Raven ...
Lawrence Superintendent Anthony Lewis is a long way from Montgomery, Ala. — the “Cradle of the Confederacy” — where he began his teaching career. Now, he’s a leader in a community that was founded as part of the struggle to end slavery. Regardless of its founding by abolitionists, ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours. Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity up to 6 a.m. on the date listed and extending back to 6 a.m. on the previous day. Each listing includes a date, time and general ...
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A federal judge has awarded more than $1 million in damages to another veteran who says he was sexually abused by a former physician assistant at a VA hospital in Kansas. It’s the third time since November that U.S. District Judge Daniel Crabtree has ruled against ...
Story updated at 12:48 p.m. Monday TOPEKA (AP) — Kansas lawmakers have been moving quickly on legislation that would extend the state's COVID-19 emergency declaration before it expires on Jan. 26. “I’ve not seen, and I don’t think we’ve seen before, a bill that moved with such ...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Abortion opponents are moving with unusual speed to put a proposed anti-abortion amendment to the state constitution on the ballot, fearing a COVID-19 outbreak could thwart them if they delay action even for a few weeks. The proposed amendment would overturn a Kansas ...
Eudora has found an anchor tenant for the Nottingham redevelopment project, which will attempt to transform the old elementary school site into a regional tourist destination. On Jan. 11, the Eudora City Commission approved the sale of about 3.5 acres of the Nottingham property to the Austin, ...
TOPEKA — Senate Majority Leader Gene Suellentrop doesn’t prefer to wear a mask in the Capitol as the COVID-19 pandemic rages outside the confines of the limited-access building. The Wichita Republican takes what might be considered a diplomatic approach to admonitions from public health ...
TOPEKA — Two months out from a record-breaking general election, Secretary of State Scott Schwab expressed confidence Kansas had a free and fair election due to strong policies already in place. Schwab credited state lawmakers with enacting legislation allowing so many methods to easily cast ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. defense officials say they are worried about an insider attack or other threat from service members involved in securing President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, prompting the FBI to vet all of the 25,000 National Guard troops coming into Washington for the ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours. Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity up to 6 a.m. on the date listed and extending back to 6 a.m. on the previous day. Each listing includes a date, time and general ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — When Joe Biden takes the oath of office Wednesday outside a wounded U.S. Capitol, he will begin reshaping the office of the presidency itself as he sets out to lead a bitterly divided nation struggling with a devastating pandemic and an insurrection meant to stop his ...
Former County Commissioners Nancy Thellman and Michelle Derusseau tackled a lot of big projects in their time in county government — a new behavioral health campus, criminal justice reform efforts, a revamped set of land use regulations — but some of their proudest achievements are a lot ...
It’s not yet 6 p.m. on Thursday, and already there are a couple of dozen people lined up outside Room 108 at the Days Inn hotel. A few cars idle in the parking lot, one with its back seat cluttered with possessions. Masks are handed out to those who don’t have them, and the volunteers ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours. Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity up to 6 a.m. on the date listed and extending back to 6 a.m. on the previous day. Each listing includes a date, time and general ...
