Story updated at 9:10 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 6: DODGE CITY — Volunteers from across the nation came to Dodge City on Election Day to give voters a ride to the city’s only polling site located outside city limits more than a mile from the nearest bus stop. This iconic Wild West town located ...
The Douglas County Commission meeting scheduled for Wednesday has been canceled. It is the second straight week the meeting has been canceled for the lack of a large agenda item. The County Commission is next scheduled to meet at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 14, at the Douglas County Courthouse, ...
TOPEKA - Candidates in two close races on Tuesday's ballot expressed cautious optimism as they went into the polls to cast their own ballots. Laura Kelly, the Democratic candidate for governor, cast her vote in central Topeka around 9 a.m., while Steve Watkins, the Republican candidate in the ...
Update: 3:50 p.m. Tuesday Many first-time voters cast their ballots at the University of Kansas’ Burge Union on Tuesday. A line of KU students stretched out the door of the conference room where ballot booths were set up for the students who live and are registered to vote on Daisy ...
The commissioner of the Big 12 Conference, Bob Bowlsby, will be the keynote speaker for this year’s James Naismith Lecture Series at the University of Kansas. Bowlsby will give his speech, titled “Positivity is a Choice,” at 6 p.m. Nov. 13 in the Capitol Federal Hall Auditorium. The ...
Today, Nov. 6 Lawrence Transit offering free rides to the polls, open 7 a.m.-7 p.m. Red Dog’s Dog Days Fitness Program, 6 a.m. & 6 p.m., Haskell Indian Nations University, 155 E. Indian Ave. Lawrence Breakfast Optimist Club, 7 a.m., Brandon Woods, Smith Center, 1501 Inverness ...
Honestly, who steals a lizard? Allegedly, three out-of-county visitors to Pet World in Lawrence. Clearwater, a bearded dragon lizard who is rehabilitating at the pet store, was allegedly abducted by a woman and two accomplices who were recently eyeing the lizard for some time in the store, ...
TOPEKA – The major candidates in this week’s general election spent much of Monday crisscrossing Kansas as part of their last-minute get-out-the-vote drives. Voters in Kansas are selecting a new governor and at least one new member of the U.S. House. Also on the ballot are all the other ...
End-of-year bonuses for senior city of Lawrence employees that typically cost the city hundreds of thousands of dollars annually could eventually be phased out. City management is recommending the change; employee groups are opposed. At its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will ...
WICHITA — Democrats halted a 20-year decline in Kansas voter registration numbers, but they still trail far behind the dominant Republican party, official figures released Monday show. On the eve of the 2018 midterm election, the Kansas secretary of state’s office released the latest ...
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. Sunday to 6 a.m. Monday and includes 157 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
Douglas County Clerk Jamie Shew is predicting a record-breaking midterm turnout after all the votes are cast Tuesday, but he admits he doesn’t know what the large number of votes cast in advance will mean for traditional election day voting. County residents crowded the first- and ...
Needing more space for beer glasses and T-shirts is usually considered a problem at my house, but it is a sign of booming business for one Lawrence manufacturer. Grandstand Glassware & Apparel has plans for an approximately $5 million expansion at its East Hills Business Park location. As ...
The majority of the social service organizations that applied for city funding for 2019 could receive more than they did this year, with some organizations potentially getting thousands more than they received in 2018. Funding for social services next year is set to get an extra bump in part ...
Story updated at 5:45 p.m. Monday, Nov. 5, 2018. Close to 170 potential jurors flowed into the Douglas County District Courthouse Monday morning, kicking off the court’s largest jury selection operation in recent history, if ever. The group will be carved down to a panel of 12 jurors to ...
Douglas County residents looking to purchase health insurance through the federal marketplace will find they really only have one option for 2019. Through the Affordable Care Act, Kansas has two health insurance companies providing care to state residents, but one of those companies, Medica, ...
Multiple people reported hearing yelling and gunshots Sunday night in the 2500 block of West Sixth Street. Police checked it out and found spent shell casings and rounds of ammunition in the parking lot of the Country Club on 6th apartments, but no one reported being injured or having ...
Lawrence city commissioners will soon decide whether to begin using a new transportation company to operate city buses. At its meeting Tuesday, the commission will consider approving a new contract with First Transit Inc. to provide public transportation services from Jan. 1, 2019, through ...
A shooting and a series of armed robberies — where suspects barged into homes wearing creepy masks — earlier this year in Lawrence all had a common denominator: The same man setting up sham marijuana buys from people he knew were selling. But instead of buying, the man’s cohorts ...
Marriages Joshua Smith, 27, Lawrence, and Elizabeth Miller, 30, Lawrence. Jason Matthew Spinelli, 44, Lawrence, and Cheryl Athenna Lease, 35, Lawrence. Melissa Ann Boone, 52, Lawrence, and Caroline J. Mueller, 52, Germany. Ronald D. Ball Jr., 47, Lecompton, and Debra Jean Johnson, 53, ...