An idle conversation during a board meeting for the Watkins Museum of History sparked an idea that could breathe new life into an old stadium. Andrew Stockmann, the curator of exhibitions for the Watkins, said he overheard Justine Burton, one of the museum’s board members, talking about how ...
After crafting a story about two rival kingdoms and a third secretly pulling the strings, middle schooler Hailee Shrimplin is about to see her story brought to life on Theatre Lawrence’s big stage. Hailee, a seventh grader at Eudora Middle School, joined the Suitcase Stories Club, where ...
CARACAS, Venezuela — Hours after an audacious military operation that plucked leader Nicolás Maduro from power and removed him from the country, President Donald Trump said Saturday that the United States would run Venezuela at least temporarily and tap its vast oil reserves to sell to other ...
Douglas County law enforcement increased holiday patrols through a state-funded campaign aimed at deterring impaired driving and shared the total DUI arrests reported over the past week. The year-round Special Traffic Enforcement program includes several campaigns timed around holidays such as ...
As De Soto envisions expanding the industrial park near the massive new Panasonic factory, a small nature park near the Douglas County border could literally be in the way of that growth. The Sunflower Nature Park in De Soto — a 58-acre park about five miles outside of Eudora — sits just ...
OMAHA, Neb. — Farmers are now learning how much aid they can expect to receive from a $12 billion package that President Donald Trump announced earlier this month. The U.S. Department of Agriculture released the figures Wednesday for how much aid per acre farmers can plan on for each row ...