Douglas County will take over management of a human services facility next year with plans of keeping rent flat for the tenants of the building. The county-owned facility, at 2518 Ridge Court, is currently managed by the United Way of Douglas County, which is also a tenant. During its ...
Story updated 5:34 p.m. Thursday: After just short of four hours of deliberations Thursday, a jury convicted Tommy J. May of 10 felony charges. May, 60, of Lawrence, was accused of shooting and injuring a woman, shooting and paralyzing a man and then fleeing the scene and attempting to run ...
The question of whether expanding the city’s boundaries to build new neighborhoods ends up benefiting or burdening the city’s budget will soon be answered. The City of Lawrence will be coordinating a study to determine the cost of growth for various types of development on the overall ...
Shoppers at Van Go's annual holiday art sale this weekend will be able to take in some eclectic music at the same time. The social service agency that employs at-risk young people as apprentice artists will be welcoming Kansas City-based musician Calvin Arsenia for a benefit concert on ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours. Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Wednesday to 6 a.m. Thursday and includes 145 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
A man convicted of stealing between $1,000 and $2,000 cash from the Islamic Center of Lawrence was sentenced Wednesday to two years of probation. Amadou O. Bah, 32, pleaded no contest on Oct. 17 and was found guilty of one count of burglary of a nondwelling, a felony. As part of the plea, the ...
The University of Kansas will be charging less for its basic food and housing arrangement in the next academic year — and it will be Kansas' only public university to lower that rate. At a meeting Wednesday, the Kansas Board of Regents approved all six Kansas public universities' new food ...
A planned expansion of the Douglas County Jail is expected to cost nearly $30 million, and construction could begin as early as March, county leaders learned Wednesday. Representatives for Turner Construction, the construction manager for the project, told the Douglas County Commission during ...
Evidence wrapped up Wednesday in a Lawrence shooting trial that has been, at times, a bit heated since it began Dec. 9. Judge James McCabria had readied a video conference in another courtroom if the defendant, Tommy May, was unable to heed the court’s orders not to talk about certain ...
The University of Kansas will name its new integrated science building after its previous chancellor, Bernadette Gray-Little. At a meeting Wednesday night, the Kansas Board of Regents approved Chancellor Douglas Girod's request to name the building after KU's 17th chancellor. It will be called ...
DETROIT — The Justice Department announced a crackdown Wednesday aimed at driving down violent crime in seven of the nation’s most violent cities. Attorney General William Barr released details of the initiative known as Operation Relentless Pursuit at a news conference in Detroit ...
A Lawrence man has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with an Aug. 20 accident that killed a 24-year-old woman. Eric L. Spaeth, 43, was arrested Friday and charged Monday in Douglas County District Court, records indicate. He faces a charge of second-degree murder, a ...
Lawrence developer Thomas Fritzel is preparing to withdraw his not-guilty plea in a federal fraud case. Fritzel and his bookkeeper, Keela Lam, then 52 and 46 respectively, were indicted in June 2018 on charges of scheming to collect more than $400,000 in fraudulent tax refunds from the City ...
TOPEKA — Kris Kobach's successor as Kansas secretary of state says his staff found an unsecured gun in a file cabinet after taking over the office. The discovery of the .45-caliber pistol in January was mentioned in a timeline that Secretary of State Scott Schwab's aides produced as they ...
Although a psychologist had written the words in her report on a Lawrence murder defendant, attorney Carl Cornwell said a “battered woman” defense did not occur to him. Sarah Gonzales-McLinn, now 25, is serving a sentence of 50 years to life for the 2014 murder of Harold “Hal” Sasko. ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours. Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Tuesday to 6 a.m. Wednesday and includes 165 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
WICHITA — Kansas may have to help pay workers at a company that makes fuselages for the grounded Boeing 737 Max if the planes don't return to the sky soon, Gov. Laura Kelly said. Kelly said she talked with Wichita-based Spirit AeroSystems CEO Tom Gentile on Tuesday, one day after Boeing ...
City leaders have indicated they would like to commit to running on all renewable energy in the coming years. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission received a recommendation from the Sustainability Advisory Board to adopt a policy committing to 100% renewable energy for ...
The Lawrence Public Library board voted to eliminate fines for overdue books and other media beginning next year, but not before hearing concerns from some residents. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the library Board of Trustees voted unanimously to eliminate late fines from the library’s ...
Sarah Gonzales-McLinn, now 25, said Tuesday that she never “wanted her story told,” as her trial attorney had said. “I was so embarrassed,” she testified from the witness stand, for the first time in the nearly six-year span of her case. “... Who would’ve wanted to go through ...
