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. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Monday to 6 a.m. Tuesday and includes 150 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
Carved deep into sandstone, primitive drawings have survived for centuries in the outcroppings, bluffs and caves of Kansas. Now many of those carvings can be viewed in the book “Petroglyphs of the Kansas Smoky Hills,” by Rex C. Buchanan, Burke W. Griggs and Joshua L. Svaty. Recently ...
The former Boys & Girls Club building in eastern Lawrence has been bought by a concert company. But, no, it won’t soon play host to your favorite band. Instead, it will become the new headquarters for a local company that books bands and other events across the country. Mammoth Live has ...
WICHITA — Kris Kobach isn’t fazed that fellow Republicans worry he’s unpopular or too brash in pushing his hard-right views to keep Kansas’ open Senate seat in GOP hands next year. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and others are so concerned that they’ve spent months urging ...
A man who stands accused in two grease theft incidents is back in Douglas County District Court this week after recently missing hearings in his case. Byron P. Aston, 29, of Springfield, Mo., was first charged Feb. 27 with low-level felony theft for allegedly stealing more than a ton of used ...
Lawrence police provided little new information Tuesday on an accident that injured three people the previous evening at Kansas Highway 10 and West Sixth Street. First responders were dispatched to the three-vehicle crash around 6:10 p.m. Monday, the Journal-World reported. One person was ...
Large crowds lined the railroad tracks in North Lawrence Tuesday morning as the historic Union Pacific Big Boy steam locomotive No. 4014 made its way through town on a national tour. The restored steam locomotive is conducting a cross-country tour of the Union Pacific system to commemorate the ...
A rural homeowner near Clinton Lake wants to build a boat and RV storage lot on her property and open part of her home for vacation lodging. The homeowner, Connie Robertson, submitted two separate conditional use permit applications for the proposed plans, which the Douglas County Commission ...
Story updated at 9:08 p.m. Monday: Three people were injured in a car accident in the area of Kansas Highway 10 and Sixth Street/U.S. Highway 40 Monday evening, according to police. Around 6:10 p.m. Monday, first responders were dispatched to the scene of the accident, which involved three ...
A man convicted in connection with a robbery in a series that took place in Lawrence in early 2018 was sentenced to just short of five years in prison Monday in Douglas County District Court. Corey Tremain Allen, 31, of McDonough, Ga., pleaded no contest Sept. 10, and Judge Kay Huff found him ...
Most universities have clubs for young Democrats and Republicans, but a growing number, including the University of Kansas, are establishing chapters of BridgeUSA, a national organization that seeks to expose students to diverse ideological viewpoints. Jakob Moberly, a KU sophomore who is ...
Monday's canvass of the 2019 general election results confirmed the winners for the Lawrence City Commission and Lawrence school board races. The Douglas County Clerk’s Office released the official results of the Nov. 5 election after the County Commission certified the results. 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. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Sunday to 6 a.m. Monday and includes 165 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
WICHITA — An associate professor in Kansas accused of secretly working for a Chinese university contends in a court filing that a visiting scholar fabricated the allegations against him after unsuccessfully trying to extort him for $300,000. Attorneys for Feng “Franklin” Tao filed a ...
It’s time for Douglas County residents to finish the story they're working on or polish up their poems and submit them for the 2020 Langston Hughes Awards. The annual event, jointly sponsored this year by the Lawrence Arts Center and The Raven Book Store, will offer two awards of $500 each, ...
Lawrence residents will have the opportunity this week to learn about the effects that e-cigarettes are having on students. The Lawrence school district is inviting the local community to attend a presentation about the dangers of teenage use of e-cigarettes, also known as “vaping,” during ...
Story updated at 1:13 p.m. Monday: More than three years after a 9-month-old boy was found unresponsive at a Eudora day care, the woman convicted of his murder has been sentenced to more than 10 years in prison. Carrody Melissa Buchhorn, now 45, was found guilty of second-degree murder on ...
Marriages Daniel Aaron Ashley, 39, Eudora, and Megan Christine Walker, 32, Lawrence. Christopher Wayne Dennis, 37, Lawrence, and Jamie Gail Shmalberg, 32, Lawrence. Bobbie Dean Burk, 26, Eudora, and Makayla Ann Medlen, 23, Eudora. Sreeram Manickam Murugappan Laaxman, 27, Lawrence, and ...
Jeannette Blackmar is returning to her old office home at the Lumberyard Arts Center in a new capacity. Blackmar, who has served as Baldwin City Chamber of Commerce director for the past four years, is leaving that position to become executive director of the Lumberyard Arts Center. Blackmar ...
Lawrence train buffs will be able to view a piece of railroad history Tuesday as the steam locomotive Big Boy No. 4014 makes a stop at the old Union Pacific depot at 402 N. Second St. in North Lawrence. The public is invited to view the steam locomotive from 10:15 to 10:45 a.m. Tuesday at the ...
