Kansas basketball coach Bill Self told the Journal-World on Tuesday that KU sophomore Tristan Enaruna was leaving the program and had entered his name into the transfer portal. Enaruna becomes the second Jayhawk to announce his plans to leave this week, following the lead of junior guard Tyon ...
Baldwin City has been awarded another Kansas Department of Transportation grant that will allow it to become the first city in Douglas County to complete its Safe Routes to School network of trails and sidewalks. Ed Courton, Baldwin City community development director, said the latest KDOT ...
Douglas County residents and others in the area soon will have to push a few more buttons if they want complete a local telephone call. The Kansas Corporation Commission has announced that local phone calls made in the 785 area code will require the users to dial the area code. Currently, a ...
One more Douglas County resident has died from COVID-19, according to the county health department, bringing the total number of COVID-19-related deaths in the county to 84. The new death was a woman in the 45-to-54 age range who had been hospitalized at the time of death, health department ...
A local nonprofit celebrating its 30th anniversary has admittedly “ambitious” goals for the next five years: Its leaders want to help 200 children a year by doubling the budget. Douglas County Court Appointed Special Advocates, or Douglas County CASA, as it is commonly called, is a ...
The Kansas Cold Weather Rule will end Wednesday, according to a news release from the Kansas Corporation Commission. This means that Kansans who are behind on electric and natural gas utility bills may be subject to disconnection of service unless they contact their utility company to make ...
On Saturday, Douglas County Cub and Boy Scouts will visit Lawrence, Baldwin City and Eudora neighborhoods to pick up donated food on front porches. Paul Taylor, district executive of the Pelathe Boy Scout District, said scouts left notices and bags Saturday on front doors of residences in the ...
For Derek Kwan, the past year has felt similar to what he witnessed almost 20 years ago. As the coronavirus swept across the world, creating a global pandemic, it also seems to have sparked what Kwan sees as an anti-Asian sentiment, likely because the virus was first discovered in China, which ...
As he walked Saturday along Lawrence's river levee trail, explaining what he hoped a cleanup effort would accomplish, Alex Hormell spotted what he said was another homeless camp abandoned last fall with the onset of cold weather. Hormell, who organized the volunteer cleanup, had spotted tarps ...
Data from four local health organizations showed that more than 35,000 first doses of COVID-19 vaccine had been administered in Douglas County as of Thursday. Altogether, data from the four distributors — LMH Health, Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health, Heartland Community Health Center ...
Two more Douglas County residents have died from COVID-19, according to the county health department, bringing the total number of COVID-19-related deaths in the county to 83. According to the health department’s dashboard, there have been 39 deaths in the 85-plus age range, 24 deaths in ...
A variant of COVID-19 that was originally detected in the United Kingdom has been identified in Douglas County, according to a news release from the local health department on Thursday evening. The B.1.1.7 variant is about 50% more contagious than the COVID-19 strain that is common in the ...
Story updated at 7:07 p.m. Thursday: The president of Haskell Indian Nations University is once again being accused of writing an unconstitutional directive — this time addressed to his employees — by a nonprofit dedicated to protecting free speech rights on college campuses. On March ...
A local theater and a pharmacy have teamed up to host one of Douglas County’s COVID-19 vaccination sites, and when someone gets a shot at the theater, it comes with a show. Sigler Pharmacy has been using Theatre Lawrence as its vaccine clinic site since late February. During clinics, the ...
Douglas County reported 8,841 cases of COVID-19 as of Tuesday, an increase of five cases since Monday. In Douglas County, 8,626 out of the 8,841 cases are inactive or beyond the infectious period, according to Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health, meaning 215 cases are active. The county has ...
Baker University is eliminating four full-time faculty positions and four major programs in response to the financial strains of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the action has sparked a backlash among some students and community members. The Baker Board of Trustees approved the faculty and program ...
Data from four local health organizations showed that more than 29,000 first doses of COVID-19 vaccine had been administered in Douglas County as of Thursday. Altogether, data from the four distributors — LMH Health, Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health, Heartland Community Health Center ...
After an entirely remote 2020-2021 school year, Haskell Indian Nations University will once again hold in-person instruction in the fall. A Sunday email from Haskell Registrar Lou Hara states that Haskell will hold in-person, hybrid and online classes in the fall. Any class listed with a room ...
Indianapolis — The Journal-World learned Monday morning that Kansas freshman Jalen Wilson landed in Indianapolis a little after 9:30 a.m. local time, roughly 12 hours before tipoff of 3rd-seeded KU’s Monday night game with No. 6 seed USC at Hinkle Fieldhouse. Wilson, who missed KU’s ...
Indianapolis — The Kansas men’s basketball team expects to have redshirt freshman forward Jalen Wilson back with the team on Monday morning, and KU coach Bill Self said that if Wilson is with the team, he will suit up and play. “If he's here, he's suiting up,” Self said Sunday. ...