Columbia, Mo. (ap) — Missouri’s only abortion clinic asked a state panel Tuesday for an extension to continue providing abortions, but on Thursday it looked as if the panel wouldn’t grant the stay in time to stop the clinic’s license from expiring. The state health department last week ...
Story updated at 9:12 a.m. Friday The Lawrence Police Department has canceled a silver alert that it issued for a missing 81-year-old man Thursday evening. Police said they located the man, John Gaither Ranney, early Friday morning in Mitchell County, Kansas. He was unharmed, police said.
Interim Fire Chief Shaun Coffey has been hired as the new chief of the Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical Department, Lawrence City Manager Tom Markus announced Thursday. Markus, who appointed Coffey as interim chief in July 2018, said in a city news release that he had watched Coffey lead ...
A survey of a site proposed for behavioral health housing in northern Lawrence has not turned up archeological or human remains, clearing the way for the much-anticipated Douglas County behavioral health campus to move forward. Earlier this year, the Delaware Tribe, which once inhabited the ...
Young rockers who’ve spent a week jamming and writing music will take the stage at the Granada this weekend for the fifth annual Girls Rock Lawrence Showcase. During the five-day Girls Rock Lawrence Camp at the Lied Center, 30 girls and transgender youth got a crash course in writing and ...
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 190 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
An internationally established organist is joining the faculty at the University of Kansas School of Music. Olivier Latry, one of the three organists for the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, is filling the William T. Kemper Artist-in-Residence at KU for the upcoming school year, the ...
The students may have been in the middle of their summer break, but the debate teams for Lawrence and Free State high schools were busy last week competing on the national stage. Lawrence coach Jeff Plinksy and Free State coach Kelly Thompson told the Journal-World they were proud of the ...
A stream advisory for Brush Creek in Lawrence has been lifted following a recent release of sewage into the creek. Following heavy rainfall over the weekend, the city released rainwater and sewage into the creek to prevent backup into the sanitary sewer collection system upstream of Pump ...
TOPEKA — The Kansas Lottery is launching a pilot program to test vending machine sales. Lottery officials announced Wednesday that four self-service vending machines will be installed at retailers in Topeka. The first pilot site was installed Wednesday, with the other three sites set to ...
Story updated at 11:16 a.m. Thursday TOPEKA — A former Kansas City Chiefs player and now businessman who has served on local and state government boards is running for the U.S. Senate in Kansas. Dave Lindstrom, who lives in the Kansas City suburb of Overland Park, launched his bid for the ...
Kelsey King sat patiently Monday afternoon while a volunteer brushed her hair into a high ponytail for her role as the Genie in this weekend's Penguin Project performance of Disney’s “Aladdin Jr.” at Theatre Lawrence. Eleanor Roust, Kelsey’s mentor, stood nearby, concerned that her own ...
Douglas County commissioners on Wednesday approved expanding a program in which care coordinators “walk with” clients through behavioral health recovery, as its supporters put it. Bob Tryanski, the county’s director of behavioral health projects, and Stacey Cooper, supervisor of ...
A longtime company executive will take over at Hallmark as two of the members of the company’s founding family step down from their top positions. Mike Perry has been appointed as president and chief executive officer of Kansas City, Mo.-based Hallmark, according to a release from the ...
The Lawrence chamber of commerce will soon be able to provide more financial assistance to small businesses. The chamber on Wednesday announced that NetWork Kansas, a nonprofit organization focused on business growth, promoted the chamber’s small-business loan program Metropolitan ...
The City of Lawrence has elected to put the controversial Queens Road reconstruction project on hold pending a decision in a lawsuit filed by one of the homeowners in the taxing districts set up to pay for the project. Following years of debate regarding how the multimillion-dollar road ...
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 162 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
A man who got kicked out of a downtown Lawrence bar reportedly displayed a gun when he wasn’t allowed back in early Wednesday morning. Lawrence police were dispatched to the Jazzhaus, 926 Massachusetts St., just after midnight for a reported disturbance with weapons, Sgt. Amy Rhoads said in ...
University of Kansas police are looking for a peeping Tom who’s reportedly been going into women’s restrooms on campus. Three times this month, a man has gone into women’s restrooms in Strong Hall and the Dole Center and has looked under an occupied bathroom stall, KU police said in a ...
Gunshots fired at a Lawrence apartment complex apparently sent a number of people running Tuesday night, but no one was hit. The disturbance was reported just after 11:10 p.m. Tuesday in the 1000 block of West 24th Street. Multiple callers reported hearing gunshots and seeing multiple people ...
