Douglas County commissioners at their Wednesday meeting are expected to determine the timeline for the Senior Resource Center's transition from a nonprofit agency into a county department, which will require nearly $220,000 in additional funding. Commissioners will consider a transition ...

Even an activist as legendary as Martin Luther King Jr. needed someone to help him up sometimes, and that was never more true than when King was stabbed in the chest with a letter opener at a 1958 book signing in Harlem. The attack, carried out by a woman struggling with mental illness, left ...

It's a classic setup, one that's more than 15 years old — Busker Festival organizer Richard Renner finds a bunch of weird and wacky folks and brings them to perform in downtown Lawrence for a few days. But the punchline is that this time, they're not street performers — they're stand-up ...

Alex Gleason can’t pinpoint the moment she injured her thumb, but she knew something wasn’t quite right. The Olathe North junior walked off the mat at a meet for her summer wrestling club in June and realized it really hurt. “It was really uncomfortable and I went to the trainer. They ...

If the debate season were over right now, Free State High School alumnus John Marshall and his University of Kansas debate partner Graham Revare would finish as the top team in the U.S. In debate, KU debate director Scott Harris said, there's no formal poll of coaches or media that ranks teams ...

With a multimillion-dollar federal grant, University of Kansas researchers will be studying a big idea for how farms might prevent crop diseases from spreading: Act less like a farm and more like a prairie. Many farms are what's called a monoculture, where there are rows upon rows of the same ...