This weekend’s 26th annual Heart of America Marching Band Festival has been canceled because of forecasts of inclement weather, the University of Kansas announced Friday. In a news release, KU Marching Jayhawks director Matt Smith said the threat of lightning, rain and potential damage to ...
Topeka ? As schools came back into session in September, the number of jobs in Kansas grew significantly compared to August, but for the entire year, job growth in the state remains fairly stagnant, according to a new report. Private-sector employment in Kansas grew by 5,500 jobs, or 0.5 ...
The Lawrence district is moving ahead in its search process for a new superintendent after finalizing a candidate profile and salary range for the position Thursday. School board members met that evening to discuss the results of community surveys and stakeholder conversations regarding the ...
A protest at a west Lawrence Burger King, over a racial slur on social media, has brought about change at the fast-food restaurant. After a large group of people gathered outside the Burger King at 4671 Bauer Farm Drive on Wednesday evening, a Burger King executive announced on Thursday that a ...
Topeka ? Many people scoffed earlier this year when they realized Jack Bergeson, a 16-year-old high school student from Wichita, had filed paperwork with the Kansas Secretary of State's office to run for governor.More recently, the scoffs turned to guffaws as three more teenagers took the same ...
At a public meet and greet Thursday at a local fast-food restaurant, new Lawrence police chief Gregory Burns Jr. said numerous residents apologized for recent violence in the city. Others congratulated him for the arrests this week of three suspects connected to a triple homicide downtown, as ...
A 20-year-old Topeka man has now been charged with the murders of all three people who died earlier this month in a quintuple shooting in downtown Lawrence.Formal charges against Anthony L. Roberts Jr. — filed Friday, Oct. 13, in Douglas County District Court and obtained Thursday by the ...
Douglas County Clerk Jamie Shew considers the $27,000 his office spent sending mailers to county voters money well spent. The mailers informed county voters there would be Nov. 7 elections for city officials and school board members and contained an application for an advance ballot. Shew said ...
One of Lawrence’s longtime nonprofits has a new name — and a new home. The Shelter Inc., henceforth known as The Children’s Shelter, officially opened its brand-new offices Tuesday in eastern Lawrence. Gina Meier Hummel, executive director of The Children’s Shelter, said the rebranding ...
Years after the idea was originally proposed, Lawrence Arts Center leaders are reviving conversations about expanding the center’s property by purchasing the adjacent Salvation Army building. The city made an agreement in 2012 to use rebates from a tax increment financing district at 9th and ...
The man police believe is responsible for Lawrence’s first triple homicide in at least 15 years is now in custody. Anthony Laron Roberts Jr., a 20-year old Topeka resident, was taken into custody on Wednesday in connection with an Oct. 1 downtown Lawrence shooting that left three people dead. ...
Topeka ? Kansas public school officials are launching a project to overhaul the way education is delivered in the state through a project that they say is so ambitious, they are likening it to the NASA moon missions of the 1960s.In fact, the first group of school districts that have agreed to ...
This week, for the first time in history, the three principal organists of Notre Dame Cathedral will perform together outside of Paris. And they’re venturing halfway around the world to do it. The University of Kansas this week will host Notre Dame organists Olivier Latry, Vincent Dubois and ...
The Lawrence City Commission at its meeting Tuesday approved a plan to fund a $2 million bicycle and pedestrian tunnel under the intersection of 19th and Iowa streets.City Engineer Dave Cronin told commissioners an underpass would improve safety for those crossing the intersection. Cronin said ...
Topeka ? Some members of the Kansas State Board of Education told U.S. Rep. Kevin Yoder on Tuesday that they believe President Donald Trump's administration has been sending negative messages about public education in general, and about teachers in particular, saying that kind of tone is ...
Topeka ? The Kansas State Department of Education released what officials called a "mixed bag" of numbers showing students generally scoring lower on statewide reading and math tests, but at the same time doing better on other measures of college and career readiness.On the whole, the latest ...
Two Topeka men — both fresh out of jail — have been charged in connection with the Oct. 1 shootings on Massachusetts Street, but neither is currently thought to be a gunman who left three dead in downtown Lawrence. Instead, local law enforcement officials are still searching for the killer ...
Monday was a day of confusion around the University of Kansas basketball program. An Associated Press article reported that KU was one of 28 universities that acknowledged it had launched an “internal review” of its recruiting practices following the bombshell announcement last month that ...
The Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department is offering three community flu vaccination clinics around the area. The first will be 4-6 p.m. Tuesday at Eudora City Hall, 4 E. Seventh St., in Eudora, according to a Monday news release from the department.The second and third will be 3:30-5:45 ...
Americans might still have divided opinions when it comes to LGBTQ rights. But when it comes down to accurately guessing how many U.S. citizens are gay or lesbian, most of us are in the same boat. Essentially, we don’t have a clue. A new study from political science researchers at the ...