Lawrence school board members will consider a plan to sell off surplus technology – including many used MacBooks – after approving new laptops for high school students. On Tuesday, school board members will consider a sale of surplus technology devices after the board previously purchased ...

A community mural at the street level could be coming to the Old West Lawrence neighborhood, thanks to the help of a prominent local artist. The Lawrence Cultural Arts Commission approved a proposal earlier this month to paint a mural near the Lawrence Community Nursery School, 645 Alabama ...

WAPPINGERS FALLS, N.Y. — As the World War II bomber Heaven Can Wait was hit by enemy fire off the Pacific island of New Guinea on March 11, 1944, the co-pilot managed a final salute to flyers in an adjacent plane before crashing into the water. All 11 men aboard were killed. Their remains, ...

As Jeff Lewis worked on his dock at Lone Star Lake on Sunday, something half-submerged in the water caught his eye. "I kept looking over there, going 'What is that?'" he said. "So I went over closer, and then I saw what it was": a great blue heron. At first he thought it might still be alive, ...

NEW YORK — Marian Rivman is pushing 80. Harriet Luria is a proud 83. In this trio, Carol Leister is the baby at 62. Together, they have decades of experience with yoga. Only now, it involves a chair. Chair yoga adapts traditional yoga poses for older people and others with physical ...

On their mission to run all the way across Kansas from north to south, Jonathan Prosser and Sean Frost got chased by dogs, jumped over a creek, had to spend the night in a van because there were no hotels nearby. And that was just the first day. The two ultra-marathoners from Topeka, who are ...