Check, please — that is, go online to check out what small or not-so-small payments your health care providers have received from pharmaceutical companies, please. A February 2019 article in The Atlantic, “Did Free Pens Cause the Opioid Crisis?” by Ray Fisman and Michael Luca, examines ...
The world incoming city manager Craig Owens departs is a very different one from what awaits him in Lawrence. The approximately 2.5-square-mile city of Clayton, Mo., where Owens has been the city manager since 2008, has been booming by many accounts. The city has about 16,000 residents and ...
As incoming city manager Craig Owens gave a driving tour of Clayton, Mo., he was sure also to drive outside Clayton’s bounds to a place starkly different from the city he has managed since 2008. Just outside the affluence of Clayton, an invisible line is crossed and the landscape changes: ...
Several roads and parking lots on the University of Kansas campus will be closed for the summer as construction projects get underway. On Monday, the university closed portions of four roads on campus — Jayhawk Boulevard, Irving Hill Road, Burdick Drive and and 15th Street — for ...
1969. It was a year of peace and love, tumult and change. A year of gritty determination and giant leaps for mankind. In 1969, five leaders came together in support of their community hospital: Dr. Monti Belot and Dr. Ralph Reed were internists; Dr. Phillip Godwin, an anesthesiologist and ...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will talk about the high water levels at Clinton and Perry lakes at a public informational meeting next week. At the meeting, scheduled for 7 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday at Perry-Lecompton High School, 404 Lecompton Road in Perry, Corps personnel will discuss the ...
The welcome sunshine that Lawrence residents woke to Saturday morning will return sporadically through the Memorial Day weekend, but so will the rains that have visited northeast Kansas throughout May. The latest storm that moved through the area Friday evening and early Saturday morning ...
The threat of bad weather didn't put a damper on the Lawrence Busker Festival's opening night Friday. The annual downtown spectacle continues through Sunday.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is prepared to release water from Perry Lake starting Saturday if heavy rains push the reservoir over its remaining storage capacity, according to a news release from the corps. Based the amount of rain in the forecast, the Corps of Engineers could release up ...
Shannon Kimball is seeking her third term as a member of the Lawrence school board — an office she’d like to hold alongside her upcoming role as president of the Kansas Association of School Boards. Kimball began her first term in July 2011. She said some of her proudest accomplishments ...
The City of Lawrence named three finalists for chief of the Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical Department on Friday afternoon. Lawrence City Manager Tom Markus named Michael Baker of Tulsa, Okla., and local candidates Shaun Coffey and Tom Fagan as the finalists, according to a city news ...
A Douglas County sheriff’s deputy who left the force after being accused of a sexual rendezvous with a female inmate has been granted a two-year probation. At his sentencing hearing Friday, Mario J. Godinez, 47, of Lawrence, apologized to authorities and the community for what his attorney ...
The National Weather Service allowed a severe thunderstorm warning for southeastern Douglas County to expire at 8 p.m. Friday. However, a tornado watch remains in effect for Douglas County and much of eastern and southeastern Kansas until 10 p.m. Friday. The weather service warns that large ...
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. Thursday to 6 a.m. Friday and includes 224 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
A man with multiple previous felony convictions picked up two more in Douglas County — one from an armed robbery at a laundromat — and is being sent back to prison for more than three years. Andre R. Brown, 30, was sentenced to 40 months in prison Friday in Douglas County District Court. ...
Bishop Seabury Academy sent off its Class of 2019 at the school's commencement ceremony Friday morning. The class includes 28 seniors who, between them, have received more than $6.4 million worth of scholarship offers, a school spokeswoman said. Margie Lawrence, media coordinator for the ...
After interviewing 10 judge candidates on Thursday, the 7th Judicial District Nominating Commission has announced four finalists it’s recommending to the governor. On the list are two public prosecutors and two public defenders. They are all Lawrence residents. Gov. Laura Kelly has 60 days ...
TOPEKA — The Kansas Department of Revenue is trying to refill dozens of jobs that were eliminated last year when the state awarded two no-bid contracts to outsource its information technology work. The department is working to rebuild its workforce after Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly's ...
Lawrence’s population in 2018 grew at its slowest rate in years, according to new figures from the U.S. Census Bureau. The new figures also show that Lawrence continues to live life on the edge. (Don’t worry, that’s not a reference about the Census Bureau knowing what you did last ...
Today, May 24 Kaw Valley Bridge Club: Open Pairs, 12:30 and 6:30 p.m., 1025 N. Third St., Suite 120. AB’s Fried Chicken, 5-7 p.m., VFW Post 852, 1801 Massachusetts St. Art Tougeau Street pARTy, 5-9 p.m., Lawrence Art Center, 940 New Hampshire St. Want to see your event listed ...