A mother on Wednesday tearfully asked a Douglas County judge to sentence the Lawrence man who gave her daughter cocaine and sexually assaulted her to as much prison time as possible. However, Kendrick Deandre Atkins, 26, received a mitigated sentence of 10 years for one count of criminal ...
A portion of the property that was home to a former call center — and at one point was considered as a location for Lawrence’s City Hall — could potentially be rezoned for residential redevelopment. The Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission will consider a request to rezone ...
A roiled bond market hasn’t yet threatened plans for a $300-million-plus hotel, retail and student housing development around the University of Kansas’ football stadium. A quiet Kansas Legislature, however, has thrown into question the future of another KU project: A $60 million building ...
Updated at 4:07 p.m. Wednesday, April 16 A former candidate for federal office has filed for a seat on the Lawrence City Commission. Paul Buskirk, a special adviser in the University of Kansas athletics department, filed to run for a commission seat on Wednesday. Buskirk previously ran for ...
Kansas health officials confirmed five new cases of measles Wednesday in an outbreak in the southwest corner of the state that's linked to Texas and New Mexico. Last week, U.S. measles cases topped 700 as Indiana joined five others states with active outbreaks. Even as the virus continued to ...
The Dole Institute of Politics will host its annual "Easter Egg Roll with Dole" event on Saturday. The free event, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m at 2350 Petefish Drive, will include egg hunts every half hour, plus storytime, live music by kid-rocker and author Jim “Mr. Stinky Feet” Cosgrove, ...
