Kansas Senate leaders from both parties unveiled bipartisan legislation on Tuesday that would ban cell phones in K–12 classrooms. The bill, Senate Bill 302, would require Kansas public school districts and accredited private K–12 schools to adopt policies limiting student use of personal ...
Motorists traveling through the Kansas River valley east of Lawrence on Tuesday morning were greeted with sunshine and a layer of ground fog hanging just above the harvested fields. The forecast from the Topeka office of the National Weather Service calls for unseasonably warm temperatures over ...
When Perry-Lecompton High School's production of "Annie" took the stage late last fall, it wasn't just a showcase for the students' talents, but also for the new fine arts auditorium they were performing in. “At the musical, you just felt like you were on stage with the kids,” ...
An idle conversation during a board meeting for the Watkins Museum of History sparked an idea that could breathe new life into an old stadium. Andrew Stockmann, the curator of exhibitions for the Watkins, said he overheard Justine Burton, one of the museum’s board members, talking about how ...
After crafting a story about two rival kingdoms and a third secretly pulling the strings, middle schooler Hailee Shrimplin is about to see her story brought to life on Theatre Lawrence’s big stage. Hailee, a seventh grader at Eudora Middle School, joined the Suitcase Stories Club, where ...
CARACAS, Venezuela — Hours after an audacious military operation that plucked leader Nicolás Maduro from power and removed him from the country, President Donald Trump said Saturday that the United States would run Venezuela at least temporarily and tap its vast oil reserves to sell to other ...