Updated at 12:40 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 13 Victims' relatives and law enforcement officials hugged one another Thursday after a Douglas County judge sentenced a Lawrence man to consecutive life terms for murdering two men and attempting to murder several more, including police officers who were ...
Updated 9:15 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 13, 2026 Douglas County commissioners voiced support for a proposal that would use future tax revenue to help finance a commercial and industrial development in Eudora. The City of Eudora is proposing a new Tax Increment Financing district for a ...
A recently filed lawsuit is alleging that a University of Kansas fraternity with a history of hazing subjected one of its pledges in 2025 to “waterboarding torture techniques,” forced binge drinking, acts of violence, and harassment and intimidation even after he left the chapter. The suit ...
The man charged with killing Charlie Kirk shouldn't get the death penalty because the shooter "hit the intended target" and no one else was endangered when the conservative activist was shot from a rooftop as he addressed a crowd of thousands at an event in Utah last year, his lawyers ...
The KU-run Hilltop Child Development Center has lost more than half its teachers and students in the last year, and now university leaders are questioning the viability of the more than 50-year-old center. A group of the center’s employees, parents and past parents, though, are questioning ...
Immigration and Customs Enforcement's plan to give officers gloves that deliver painful electric shocks faced criticism Wednesday from Democratic elected officials and civil rights advocates, who called it unnecessary and cruel. ICE plans to spend between $10 million and $20 million to outfit ...
