Voters in the Perry-Lecompton school district will decide in November whether to create a joint recreation system funded by a one-mill property tax rate. In the upcoming general election, a ballot question will ask voters to approve the creation of a joint recreation system involving the ...
A Douglas County jury on Thursday convicted a 27-year-old Lawrence woman of felony interference with law enforcement after she refused to obey officers who were attempting to arrest her last winter. The incident occurred on Jan. 7 outside a Hy-Vee gas station, where the woman, Jaleigha ...
I think city commissioners on Tuesday night should have been pretty interested in taking the State of Kansas for about $80 million. I think they should continue to be interested in such a scheme. Yes, a scheme. That’s basically what this decision of whether to include the soon-to-open ...
A half-cent sales tax in Eudora could support three full-time firefighters and give the city around-the-clock-fire protection for the first time in its history if voters approve the measure on election day. The 0.5% sales tax would be spent on public safety expenses and cover the roughly ...
Regular people may have entered South Park on Thursday afternoon, but they left as a horde of zombies for the 19th annual Zombie Walk fundraiser for the Lawrence Humane Society. They shuffled and lurched down the street at dusk after a blood bath, makeup help and costume contest.
BEND, Ore. (AP) — At least two people were hospitalized Thursday following a shooting at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon, and the attacker was shot and killed, authorities said. "We don't have a number at this point. We know children are among the victims," Bend police spokesperson ...
