After a tempestuous spring and summer, which brought flooding and destruction of property for some area residents, the fall has been dry. A third of the way through December, only a trace of precipitation has been reported at the Lawrence Municipal Airport, said Daniel Reese, a meteorologist ...
Meeting the in-laws can be daunting. But meeting them in a foreign country where you don’t speak the language and suddenly come down with a life-threatening illness that leaves you temporarily blind and paralyzed is another thing altogether. That’s what happened to Tyron Byrd, a former ...
A former University of Kansas and professional football player told the residents of the O’Connell Youth Ranch not to let society tell a single story about them. Darrell Stuckey, who played safety for KU from 2006 to 2009 before starting a seven-year NFL career with the San Diego Chargers, ...
Marriages Maxwell Campbell, 28, Mission, and Dana Whetter, 29, Mission. Trevor Perry, 29, Lawrence, and Ruth Yaregal, 28, Lawrence. Reginald Demart Harrison, 42, Ottawa, and Donna Nicole Jones, 44, Lawrence. Divorces Sara Dorton, 41, Eudora, and Joshua Dorton, 42, Eudora. Timmothy Bradley ...
Kansas native Shannon Pufahl was mulling over the plot of her first novel long before she began writing “On Swift Horses.” At first, she thought the story would focus on her grandparents, who moved from Kansas to Southern California after the Korean War. Her grandmother spent time in Las ...
Flu season won’t peak until early next year; however, coughs, aches and fevers are currently on the rise, according to the Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department. In recent days, there has been an uptick in the number of Douglas County residents who have gone to an emergency department in ...
Winter is coming. This means freezing temperatures, snow, black ice and lots of slipping and sliding are on the way. Though winter weather can look beautiful and peaceful, it can also be very dangerous if you are not prepared. LMH Health wants to make sure that you are being safe on the roads ...
The Baldwin City Council has approved a $1.35 million contract to construct a new police station that Mayor Casey Simoneau said will serve the community for half a century. At its Dec. 3 meeting, the Baldwin City Council approved a bid from Lloyd Builders, of Ottawa, to tear down the former ...
Seeing local law enforcement officers help children pick out their favorite gifts this holiday season almost brought tears to the eyes of Amanda Vervynck. “It’s amazing,” said Vervynck, the director of education for the Ballard Community Center. “It makes me want to cry.” Local law ...
This year’s Holiday Extravaganza craft show will span three basketball courts at Sports Pavilion Lawrence. There will be 206 vendors, including local and regional artists selling their work. Plus, there will be a variety of items from pottery, photography, holiday decorations, jewelry, ...
New organizers for Lawrence’s Old-Fashioned Christmas Parade have taken the reins this year and will make sure it doesn’t disappear in the future. Marty Kennedy, a longtime organizer for the event, told the Journal-World Thursday that new members of the parade committee want to continue ...
Mable Durrant was a petite young woman, but that didn’t stop her from standing by the railroad tracks and holding out messages to enormous passing trains, doing her part for the war effort back in 1942. Mable, now 95, had just graduated from high school in Arkansas during the height of World ...
Before she started directing “Matilda” for Theatre Lawrence, Widge Yager did her homework on the man behind the musical. Roald Dahl, the beloved British author of the 1988 book on which the hit musical is based, had a particular worry as he was writing the story about his child genius: ...
Organizers of Lawrence’s annual Community Christmas Dinner are seeking donations of food and volunteers for this year's event. The 26th annual dinner, which is free and open to the public, will take place at First United Methodist Church, 946 Vermont St., from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Dec. 25. ...
Eudora leaders once again are taking steps to build a new retail center along Kansas Highway 10 that they hope will cut down on the amount of shopping that Eudora residents do in Lawrence. “We want things that are a good fit for Eudora and that will benefit the community for 20 or 30 ...
Marriages Kimberly Lynn Authier, 28, Lawrence, and Whitney Marie Widener, 30, Lawrence. Brandon Ohmie, 37, Faucett, Mo., and Elizabeth Boyles, 32, Faucett, Mo. James Allen Hill, 53, Lawrence, and Sarah Diane Meng, 46, Lawrence. Thomas Dean Albin, 30, Lawerence, and Kirsten Michelle Osburn, ...
For several years overgrown trees hid most of the house at 1051 Wellington Drive. Built back in 1960 by Dwight Burnham, a University of Kansas art instructor, the house fell into disrepair before Burnham died in 2013. When the property came up for auction in 2015, Gordie Sailors and Paula ...
Jerod Nieder has been paralyzed from the chest down for the past eight years, but lying on his back as researchers call out commands — “right knee up” — Nieder is able to slowly move his knee toward his chest. Nieder does not have sensation in his lower body, but he is learning to ...