Douglas County commissioners said they would be interested in exploring changes to local fireworks sales dates to ensure the period includes a weekend – which vendors said could help boost sales. Currently, Douglas County’s regulations allow firework sales for just four days — from July ...
There is apparently no question that he was a Lawrence teacher in his mid-30s and she was a sophomore in high school when they began having a sexual relationship a quarter of a century ago. The question - the legal one, at least - will be whether the relationship occurred in the first part of ...
NEW YORK (AP) — A long-retired New York City police detective was arrested Wednesday in the road rage killing of a motorist on the George Washington Bridge, police said. Victor Romero, 62, was charged with murder in the death of Koran Irvine, 46, who was found wounded and unconscious in the ...
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — A ruptured chemical tank billowed a white plume into the air for hours Wednesday, forcing hundreds of residents out of their homes due to the potentially toxic leak and the possibility of an explosion. More than 50,000 people in Toledo, Ohio, were advised to stay indoors ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to let it resume building a border wall project through the Big Bend region of Texas. The government filed an emergency appeal asking the justices to lift a lower court decision halting construction. That ruling ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to allow the Trump administration to immediately enforce new medical restrictions for transgender people in prison. The decision leaves in place a lower-court block on the policy. It was adopted after an executive order from President ...
