Years into efforts to purge Richmond, Virginia — a former Confederate Capital — of memorials honoring the Confederacy, the Commonwealth of Virginia began removing three more Confederate memorials in the city on Friday. Statues honoring Confederate Generals Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson ...
Kathy Fox and her husband live outside of Pittsburg near the Mined Land Wildlife Area. After her husband had a stroke, they had to slow down and started focusing more on the nature around their home. A few years later in 2023, she noticed bright yellow birds — about the size of your hand ...
On the day of a celebration of life for a murdered teen, a woman rushed home when she received a worrying text that "the whiteboys" were walking around her eastern Lawrence neighborhood. Shortly after she arrived home, she and her boyfriend were shot by one of those "boys" in her doorway, ...
Lawrence's 2027 budget process is nearing the finish line, and on Tuesday the City Commission will hold its public hearings on the budget and consider an increase in stormwater rates for 2027, 2028 and 2029. As the Journal-World has reported, the city manager's proposed budget is just over ...
TOPEKA — The parent company of social media platforms Facebook and Instagram agreed to one of the largest state consumer protection settlements in American history, paying $17.1 billion to most U.S. states and territories and promising to implement sweeping safety features to protect ...
What to do about idling cars that aren’t going anywhere? And, what to do about policy ideas that aren’t going anywhere? These were two of the big questions that Lawrence’s Environmental Sustainability Advisory Board faced on Thursday night, as it discussed how the city should measure its ...
