Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours. Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Thursday to 6 a.m. Friday and includes 203 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
Updated at 6:13 p.m. Friday, June 14: Robert Wheeler was squarely at the center of the brawl that escalated to deadly gunfire on Massachusetts Street. The Topeka resident then helped police load his fatally injured cousin into a patrol car to be rushed to the hospital. He briefly talked to an ...
Story updated at 4:48 p.m. Friday TOPEKA — The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday ruled that the state's cap on damages for noneconomic injuries in personal injury lawsuits is unconstitutional. The court ruled 4-2 that capping damages an injured person is able to recover in a lawsuit violates ...
As the old joke goes, I have a fast car. The only thing it can’t pass is a gas station. But even so I’m still having a hard time keeping up with the changes in the Lawrence auto market. The latest news is that Mitsubishi has opened a dealership in Lawrence. Lawrence Mitsubishi has opened ...
A Lawrence company that designs, manufactures and sells laboratory research equipment for use in the field of neuroscience was recently awarded the Governor’s Exporter of the Year award. Pinnacle Technology Inc., 2721 Oregon St., received the award from Team Kansas and the Kansas Department ...
Having borrowed the home address of “The Munsters” for the name of his toy shop, 1313 Mockingbird Lane, owner Terry Taylor thought he was being pranked when a Munster’s manager called him about hosting a signing event at his store. “If there is a store named after 'The Munsters,' ...
Story updated at 12:08 p.m. Friday The City of Lawrence has issued a warning about drinking water to 24 households in eastern Lawrence after a series of water main leaks in the area. The city left precautionary notices on the doors of residences that were without water following the discovery ...
Updated at 5:31 p.m. Friday The Kansas Supreme Court ruled Friday that the state’s newest education funding plan is constitutional, seemingly bringing an end to an almost decade-long fight over the adequacy of K-12 funding. But the justices are refusing to relinquish jurisdiction over the ...
The Lawrence Arts Center’s Summer Youth Theatre program is bringing a “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” show to the stage this weekend — “Mary Poppins Jr.” In this abridged version of the popular musical about the “practically perfect” nanny, more than 60 students in sixth ...
As part of his recommended budget, Lawrence City Manager Tom Markus is proposing a 0.5-mill property tax hike that will help fund, among other things, the first across-the-board wage increase that most city employees have seen in years. The proposed mill levy increase would amount to about a ...
Wichita — A Wichita-area high school is operating one of the largest privately owned solar power systems in Kansas and hopes to generate enough energy in one day to power the school for a month. Maize High School on Tuesday switched on a 240-kilowatt system, which has 720 solar panels, is ...
About 850 people attended the annual Best of Lawrence winners reveal party Thursday at Abe & Jake's Landing. Full results can be found at bestoflawrence.com and in a special magazine that will be distributed in subscriber copies of the Sunday, June 16, edition of the Journal-World. More ...
West Mineral — A historic coal mining shovel that was hidden under bramble for more than 70 years has gone on display in southeast Kansas alongside its more well-known successor, an 11 million-pound orange giant known as Big Brutus. The Joplin Globe reports that a ceremony to dedicate the ...
More plays and musicals with a focus on diversity and inclusion will take the stage for KU Theatre and Dance next school year. The University Theatre and University Dance Company, the production arm for the KU Theatre and Dance department, announced in a Monday news release its 2019-2020 ...
A Baldwin City woman charged with murder in the death of a Lawrence man last year at Perry Lake pleaded guilty to the crime during a jury trial this week. Jefferson County Attorney Josh Ney announced the plea by Ashlyn N. Hemmerling in a news release Thursday. Taylor D. Sawyer, 22, was ...
Story updated at 6:31 p.m. Thursday, June 13, 2019: Silence weighed over the courtroom as a young woman quietly described seeing her best friend crumple to the sidewalk after being shot, then holding her hand as she died on Massachusetts Street. Next, Courtney Germany said she called Leah ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours. Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Wednesday to 6 a.m. Thursday and includes 219 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
Story updated at 2:19 p.m. Thursday TOPEKA — The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Thursday that it will relocate two research agencies' headquarters to the Kansas City area, delighting Kansas and Missouri officials but intensifying critics' fears that research will suffer and be less ...
Soon enough, I’ll be wishing for a smaller yard as the dandelions become the size of platters and I have to sharpen the machete every time I want to walk to the garden. Look for a new neighborhood in eastern Lawrence to have small yards, but the idea has a lot more to do with affordable ...
After years of financial issues at the Lawrence Community Shelter, its board sought supplemental funding of $148,000 from the Douglas County Commission. Commissioners on Wednesday approved the request, each noting that the shelter couldn’t be allowed to close its doors but also offering ...