It was on Ninth Street in the 1990s, Michael Almon remembers, that a movement for bike safety began in Lawrence – and it began with a tragedy. Almon, leader of the Sustainability Action Network, recounted it on Monday morning: how, in 1998, Jon Hermes was riding his bicycle at Ninth and ...
A company proposing a data center campus in De Soto says it's "committing" to provide households with up to $1,000 annually in property and utility tax credits for 10 years. The total investment of $20 million from Digital Realty is to deliver economic relief, according to a press release ...
The locally filmed thriller "One Eye Open" will have multiple Lawrence showings beginning this week. The award-winning film, written and directed by Lawrence resident Michael Coffey, was released in select AMC theaters earlier this month and will play at Liberty Hall from Thursday until Nov. ...
If the infamous Borden murders happened today, they’d likely be solved in about 15 minutes. DNA, blood splatter, doorbell cameras, geofencing — all the crime-fighting evidence that wasn’t available to detectives in 1892 in Fall River, Massachusetts — would coalesce quickly into a tidy ...
Voters in the Perry-Lecompton school district will decide in November whether to create a joint recreation system funded by a one-mill property tax rate. In the upcoming general election, a ballot question will ask voters to approve the creation of a joint recreation system involving the ...
A half-cent sales tax in Eudora could support three full-time firefighters and give the city around-the-clock-fire protection for the first time in its history if voters approve the measure on election day. The 0.5% sales tax would be spent on public safety expenses and cover the roughly ...