Douglas County officials broke ground on the $81.9 million Judicial and Law Enforcement Center and Public Safety Building project on Friday, saying they hoped the investment would produce a facility that would serve Douglas County well for decades to come. The renovation of the existing JLEC ...
There’s a new plan for the long-vacant Borders bookstore building in downtown Lawrence — and with this one, the most interesting details aren’t what would happen inside the building, but rather in its parking lot. Row houses. Lawrence businessman Adam Williams has filed plans at City ...
Not long ago, Haskell Indian Nations University's student union hardly ever had students in it at all. It was frequently “closed, and opened, then closed again,” Haskell President Frank Arpan said, and even when students could gather there, there wasn't much there for them to do. So, it ...
A Lawrence man has been ordered to stand trial on charges of rape and aggravated criminal sodomy after an 18-year-old woman testified that the man assaulted her on a couch at his apartment after an evening out. Douglas County Judge Sally Pokorny on Friday found probable cause to believe that ...
A judge denied house arrest on Friday for an international student accused of rape after hearing from a professor and Catholic deacon who had offered to let the student stay in his home. The student, Calistus Chukwuma Ezenwa, 21, is charged in Douglas County District Court with one count of ...
The Lawrence school board will soon learn what community members had to say in feedback sessions last fall about the district's priorities and biggest challenges. At its meeting on Monday, the board will hear a report on the results of Interim Superintendent Jeanice Swift's fall community ...
