Reminders and symbols of Lawrence’s unique history can be seen all throughout the city, but other sites of historic significance are just average places you might walk past without batting an eye. Tim Hossler, an associate professor of design at the University of Kansas, wanted to find a way ...

Crowds were trickling into the 1000 block of downtown Lawrence Friday evening ahead of the 8 p.m. kickoff for the U.S. national team's opening game in the World Cup. Score Lawrence, a multiagency group promoting Lawrence as a destination for soccer fans, hosted the party that closed one block ...

The Lawrence Police Department is seeking additional information in a child sex crime case involving an Indiana man who was once a high school teacher in Lawrence. John Matthew Lotz, 62, of Terre Haute, Indiana, was booked into the Douglas County Jail on June 2, as the Journal-World ...

Panasonic has announced plans to repurpose production lines inside its U.S. plants, including De Soto, in order to produce energy storage systems for data centers. Currently, the De Soto facility makes batteries for electric vehicles. A Panasonic spokesperson told the Journal-World that the ...

The Perry-Lecompton school district has implemented an AI gun detection technology to protect students and staff from gun-related threats. The software is known as ZeroEyes, a multi-analytics weapons detection and threat intelligence platform that is often easily integrated with an existing ...

As the United States soon celebrates its 250th anniversary, the Watkins Museum will open a special exhibit detailing how Douglas County celebrated the country’s Bicentennial 50 years ago. The Watkins Museum announced in a press release Thursday a special exhibit called “America’s ...