Friday, May 23 Art Tougeau Street Party and Art Car Show Off, 4-10 p.m., corner of 10th and Massachusetts (next to the Replay). Live music, art car preview, family-friendly activities. Lawrence Busker Festival, 5-10 p.m., downtown Lawrence. Free outdoor entertainment from local, national and ...
The executive director of communications of the Lawrence school district, Julie Boyle, will be retiring on July 1, according to an announcement from the district Thursday. Boyle has been working for the school district for the last 27.5 years, Superintendent Jeanice Swift said in the release, ...
They were colleagues, and they were a couple, days away from a marriage proposal. But the interwoven lives of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim were brutally cut short Wednesday evening, when the two Israeli Embassy staffers were shot while leaving a young diplomats' reception at the Capital ...
On May 6 five boys went into a bathroom at Free State High School, and a short time later all five came out. That much is certain from cameras in the school’s hallway. What happened inside the bathroom, however, is less certain. Cameras are obviously not allowed in school bathrooms, but on ...
Douglas County Commissioner Gene Dorsey is concerned that a crisis is “imminent” at Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center, and he thinks the county ought to provide some immediate financial assistance. Dorsey made that request to fellow county commissioners at Wednesday evening’s ...
A woman who was killed in an attack Wednesday while leaving an event at a Jewish museum in Washington, D.C., was a graduate of the University of Kansas. The woman, Sarah Milgrim, and her fiancé, Yaron Lischinsky, an Israeli citizen, were staff members of the Israeli Embassy in Washington and ...
