A soon-to-be-released collection of stories about Ladybird Diner doesn’t have a neat ending, according to the author and diner owner Meg Heriford, but the sales from the book will help the restaurant continue its story. “I say that the book is sort of the means to its own ending,” ...
Douglas County has reported 2,524 cases of COVID-19 as of Thursday, an increase of 29 cases since Wednesday. The county has averaged about 14 new cases per day over the last 14 days, according to a 14-day moving average graph updated weekdays by the local health department. The current average ...
One more Douglas County resident has died from COVID-19, according to the health department’s Wednesday update about the virus. Previously, Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health announced that 13 people — three residents between the ages of 65 and 74, one resident between the ages of 75 ...
Several members of Free State High School's football team have been identified as close contacts to a positive COVID-19 case stemming from an Oct. 2 football game in Johnson County, according to the local health department. The game took place at Mill Valley High School in Shawnee, and the ...
Lawrence's largest movie theater, The Regal Southwind, will close at the end of the day Thursday with no estimated reopening date amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Regal Cinemas announced Monday that it is temporarily suspending operations at all of its 536 theaters nationwide, "in response ...
Douglas County has reported 2,476 cases of COVID-19 as of Tuesday, an increase of 14 cases since Monday. The county has averaged about 14 new cases per day over the last 14 days, according to a 14-day moving average graph updated weekdays by the health department. The current average of 14 new ...
Lawrence's hospital announced Tuesday that it has received accreditation from the Commission on Cancer, a program of the American College of Surgeons that recognizes institutions that demonstrate a multidisciplinary approach to treating different types of cancer. LMH Health said it received ...
The Rev. Verdell Taylor is now witnessing the fruits of a task assigned to him when he arrived in Lawrence 25 years ago as the new pastor of St. Luke African Methodist Episcopal Church. “I was instructed to get the church on the historical register,” he said of the goal realized in 2005 ...
A Lawrence resident is one of six Chinese artists whose work is currently on display at the Royal Palace of Milan in Italy. Hong Zhang, who moved to America in 1996 and has been in Lawrence since 2004, created a piece called “Fall” for the exhibition at the Palazzo Reale Milano. It is ...
When Baldwin High School graduate Chris Ridley was recovering from a cancer surgery once, he remembered hearing an instantly recognizable, booming voice outside his hospital room. His visitor was his former high school football coach Merle Venable, who was coming to encourage his former ...
Douglas County reported 2,462 cases of COVID-19 as of Monday, an increase of 51 cases since Friday. The county has averaged about 16 new cases per day over the last 14 days, according to a 14-day moving average graph updated weekdays by the health department. The current average of 16 new ...
Allie Montgomery is a survivor. The 28-year-old Lawrence resident was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2016, at the age of 24. She had a grade three anaplastic ependymoma — a tumor on her brain, and one that was dividing rapidly. Since then, Montgomery’s journey has been a series of ups and ...
Douglas County's health department on Friday confirmed 20 new cases of COVID-19 since Thursday's daily report. After 27 cases were deemed inactive or past the infectious stage, Douglas County now has 404 active cases of the respiratory virus and has confirmed 2,411 cases overall since the ...
Story updated at 11:14 a.m. Friday WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House said Friday that President Donald Trump was suffering “mild symptoms” of COVID-19, making the stunning announcement after he returned from an afternoon fundraiser without telling the crowd he had been exposed to an aide ...
Printing problems are expected to create a delay in delivery of the Friday print edition of the Journal-World. Subscribers should expect a delay of several hours in the Friday morning delivery times of the newspaper. The newspaper likely won't reach homes and businesses until 8 a.m. on ...
The United Way of Douglas County has created a new Racial Equity Community Fund to support initiatives working to advance racial equity in health, education, income, housing, food and safety. In a press release about the new fund, the United Way wrote that Douglas County is failing to provide ...
Story updated at 4:10 p.m. Thursday Douglas County establishments with a liquor license will soon be allowed to stay open later than before due to a modification of a local health order, according to the health department. Starting Friday at 12:01 a.m., restaurants, bars and entertainment ...
Three more Douglas County residents have died from COVID-19, according to the health department's Wednesday update about the virus. Previously, Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health announced that ten people — three residents between the ages of 65 and 74, one resident between the ages of 75 ...
One of the hardest parts of Bob Brandt’s 53-year career as a barber, he said, is leaving it. Wednesday is Brandt’s last day as owner of The Malls Barber Shop, a fixture of the Lawrence community since 1959. Brandt has been the owner of the shop, located at 711 W. 23rd Street, for 38 years. ...
Douglas County has reported 2,309 cases of COVID-19 as of Tuesday, an increase of 26 cases since Monday. The county has averaged about 18 new cases per day over the last 14 days, according to a 14-day moving average graph updated weekdays by the health department. The current average of 18 new ...