TOPEKA — The newest member of the Kansas Supreme Court will be sworn in Monday at a private ceremony in Topeka. Keynen "K.J." Wall Jr., of Lawrence, will take the oath at 11 a.m. at the Kansas Judicial Center. Chief Justice Marla Luckert will preside at the ceremony. The ceremony, which ...
The COVID-19 pandemic accomplished what two world wars, the Great Depression and the Spanish Flu outbreak of 1918 couldn’t do: lead organizers of the Vinland Fair to cancel the annual three-day event. The board of the Vinland Fair announced the cancellation on its website, ...
WICHITA — Some aviation workers who were laid off in Wichita are taking advantage of a federal program that helps people looking for new opportunities or a chance to gain more education and skills. Tracy Taylor, 32, lost her job on the 737 program at Spirit AeroSystems in January. She has ...
When the coronavirus hit Kansas, there’s no question the state — like the rest of the country — was unprepared. That showed in the mad scramble to buy more surgical and N95 masks, gowns and nasal swabs. Public officials say Kansas has made progress on those and other fronts. Yet gaps in ...
Garden City — A Kansas community college has reached a settlement with the New Jersey family of a football player who died of heatstroke after team conditioning drills in 2018. Details of the settlement reached between Garden City Community College and the family of Braeden Bradforth, of ...
Whenever students end up returning to classrooms, a group of local quilters hopes to make them a bit safer from the coronavirus by providing them with handmade face masks. Some members of the Kaw Valley Quilters Guild, a Lawrence-based club with more than 200 members, are hard at work this ...
City leaders are pursuing an outside study to help inform potentially fundamental changes to the role of the Lawrence Police Department, including proposals to move some funding and duties from police to social services. All of the specific issues the study will tackle aren't determined right ...
Baldwin City residents would see neither a property tax increase nor utility rate hikes under the 2021 budget that City Administrator Glenn Rodden is proposing. The Baldwin City Council will consider approving Rodden’s proposed 2021 budget for publication at its meeting Tuesday. Should 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 ...
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, disease investigators in Douglas County had the time to contact people with positive cases of the virus and track their contacts. But as cases rose in the county in June and July, the job of contact tracing became more arduous. Since early July, the ...
A Tonganoxie woman was killed and a Bonner Springs man was injured Friday morning in Leavenworth County when a car rear-ended a motorcycle. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol's online report, the accident occurred at 5:04 a.m. Friday on U.S. Highway 24/40 just west of 150th Street in ...
Holton — Two employees at a rural county clerk’s office in northeast Kansas have contracted COVID-19, forcing its other two employees to quarantine just days before the state’s primary election. Jackson County Clerk Kathy Mick has COVID-19 and members of the Jackson County Elections ...
Topeka — Control of the Kansas Legislature could turn on dozens of down-ballot races in Tuesday’s primary election, in which many of the contests, particularly for the Kansas Senate, pit conservative Republicans against moderate incumbents. In Republican Senate primaries, moderates facing ...
Holton — Establishment GOP leaders are scrambling to pull out a win in a tense battle for the nomination in Kansas’ U.S. Senate race, and they won’t be able to count on last-minute help from President Donald Trump. Trump has signaled to allies that he won’t endorse in the primary ...
Douglas County reported 15 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, bringing the total since the pandemic began to 650, and will be remaining in Phase 3 of its COVID-19 reopening process until further notice, the local health department said Friday in a news release. The release from Lawrence-Douglas ...
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 ...
City leaders will soon review temporary rule changes that allow downtown businesses to use city sidewalks and parking spaces to operate outdoors amid the coronavirus pandemic. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will review the downtown right-of-way program and ...
A pedestrian suffered injuries that were possibly life-threatening after being struck by a vehicle Wednesday, police say. Lawrence police were dispatched to the intersection of Clinton Parkway and Lawrence Avenue at 10:12 a.m. Wednesday, Sgt. Amy Rhoads, public affairs officer, told the ...
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson is asking lawmakers to approve legislation that would allow judges to decide whether a child between the ages of 12 and 18 should be tried as an adult in court for unlawful use of weapons and armed criminal action. This comes two years after ...
Apartment complexes in Lawrence — specifically those popular with students — are experiencing differing levels of success filling up their units for fall. But leasing associates and managers at three complexes all agreed that the COVID-19 pandemic has led to an increase in demand for ...
