It was the dead of night and Ryan Ortiz was in the last stretch of his longest run to date: a 100-mile race on the Prairie Spirit Trail. The race started in Ottawa at 6 a.m. the day before. Ortiz had run south through small Kansas towns, reached the halfway point in Iola and turned north to ...
The Downtown Lawrence Farmers' Market will open for its annual season on Saturday at 824 New Hampshire St. The popular market, open from 7:30 to 11:30 a.m., will take place every Saturday morning through autumn, featuring fresh produce, flowers, baked goods and many other products. Because of ...
At his introduction Wednesday at the Lied Center, new University of Kansas Athletic Director Travis Goff said that if he did not have to give a speech, he would be speechless. For the next 40 minutes, through his introductory remarks and a 25-minute question-and-answer session with the media, ...
Story updated at 4:21 p.m. Wednesday: The director of the Bureau of Indian Education has rescinded directives sent by Haskell Indian Nations University leaders that restricted how employees could communicate, stating that the bureau is committed to freedom of expression. In a Tuesday letter ...
Kansas basketball assistant coach Jerrance Howard is leaving KU for a spot on newly named Texas coach Chris Beard’s bench in Austin. KU coach Bill Self and Howard announced the news in a release Tuesday evening, bringing an end to Howard’s eight-year run with the Jayhawks. “Working ...
Douglas County has about 1,900 open appointment slots for its COVID-19 mass vaccination clinic on Wednesday, according to a news release on Tuesday afternoon. Any Douglas County resident 16 or older can make an appointment by entering code 284987 at LDCHealth.org/GetMyVaccine. The Pfizer ...
Story updated at 5:17 p.m. Tuesday: Douglas County has the highest rate of people vaccinated against COVID-19 in Kansas, according to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. In Douglas County, 438 out of every 1,000 people have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. The ...
Douglas County reported 8,971 cases of COVID-19 as of Monday, an increase of 27 cases since Thursday. In Douglas County, 8,776 out of the 8,971 cases are inactive or beyond the infectious period, according to Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health, meaning 195 cases are active. The county has ...
Travis Goff, a 2002 graduate of the University of Kansas and a native of Dodge City, has been named the school’s new athletic director, KU Chancellor Douglas Girod announced on Monday afternoon. Goff becomes the fifth AD hired by Kansas since the late Bob Frederick retired in 2001. “It ...
A circle of volunteers surrounded Jillian Rodrigue Wednesday morning at the Douglas County Fairgrounds, just an hour before thousands of cars would start rolling through the vaccination site. “All of you have a different story,” Rodrigue told the volunteers, who were all clad in bright ...
The incumbent mayors of Baldwin City and Eudora will both seek another four years in their respective offices. Baldwin City Mayor Casey Simoneau said he filed Thursday for a second term, and Eudora Mayor Tim Reazin said he would file again for the Eudora City Commission. Eudora has a city ...
Although it was 44 years ago, it seems like yesterday that I discovered Grandma Layton. She was a 68-year-old depressed housewife from Wellsville who had just completed her first and only art course at Ottawa University. I was a 27-year-old newspaper reporter in Ottawa, always looking for ...
NEW YORK — Add travel to the activities vaccinated Americans can safely enjoy again, according to new U.S. guidance issued Friday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its guidance to say fully vaccinated people can travel within the U.S. without getting tested for the ...
Updated at 1:30 p.m. Friday The Faculty Senate at Haskell Indian Nations University has taken a vote of no confidence in the university's president, Ronald Graham, according to a resolution certified Thursday. The resolution states that the Faculty Senate has declared no confidence in ...
Updated at 9:04 p.m. Friday WASHINGTON (AP) — A Capitol Police officer was killed Friday after a man rammed a car into two officers at a barricade outside the U.S. Capitol and then emerged wielding a knife. It was the second line-of-duty death this year for a department still struggling to ...
Data from four local health organizations showed that more than 40,000 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 ...
Kansas men's basketball coach Bill Self has signed what was described by KU as "a lifetime contract" to remain the head coach of the Jayhawks, the school announced Friday morning. According to a news release put out by Kansas Athletics at 10 a.m. Friday, Self's current contract, which was to ...
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 86. The new deaths were men in the 85-plus and 55-to-64 age ranges who had been hospitalized at the time of death, health ...
After being entrusted as the caretaker of blue blood basketball programs Kansas and North Carolina for the past 33 years, Roy Williams announced his retirement from coaching on Thursday at a news conference in Chapel Hill, N.C. The 70-year-old Williams, who opened the ceremony with tears in ...
It is unclear who is leading a local health center that has been one of the main participants in the COVID-19 vaccination efforts in Douglas County. The chief executive officer of Heartland Community Health Center, Robyn Coventon, has not responded to inquiries about whether she is still ...