University of Kansas chancellor Douglas Girod is concerned that proposed cuts to state funding for higher education could cause "irreparable harm" to the university, he wrote in a campus message Tuesday. Girod wrote that Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly's budget recommendations include a 5.3% cut to ...
Douglas County reported 7,617 cases of COVID-19 as of Tuesday, an increase of 147 cases since Friday. In Douglas County, 6,407 out of the 7,617 cases are inactive or beyond the infectious period, according to Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health, meaning 1,210 cases are active. The county ...
Phase 2 of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment's five-phase COVID-19 vaccination plan is expected to begin later this month or in February, and more details have been released about who will be eligible to receive a shot in this phase. As the Journal-World has reported, Phase 1, ...
TOPEKA (AP) — Four nurses at a rural health department in Kansas are refusing to administer any COVID-19 vaccines, citing the fast development and production of the shots. Coffey County Public Health Administrator Lindsay Payer said the nurses made their own decisions and expressed their ...
The newly developed well-being branch of Douglas County’s pandemic response team has launched its first project: a hashtag campaign meant to help residents stay positive. Margaret Weisbrod Morris, chief executive officer of the Lawrence Arts Center, is one of the leaders of the well-being ...
A national nonprofit dedicated to protecting free speech has filed a complaint against Haskell Indian Nations University to the United States Department of Education. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) argues in its letter to the Department of Education that Haskell's ...
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 up to 6 a.m. on the date listed and extending back to 6 a.m. on the previous day. Each listing includes a date, time and general ...
A propane gas delivery business wants to build a 30,000-gallon tank in rural Douglas County to help with local deliveries. The County Commission on Wednesday will consider a site plan for the business, Heartland Propane, to construct the propane bulk plant on land located on the southeast ...
When I’m at the Douglas County 4-H Fair watching my children’s badly behaved 4-H hogs, I take a special type of comfort in ordering a pulled pork sandwich from one of the food trailers along the midway. Now, I can report one of those longstanding food trailers has opened its own full-time ...
TOPEKA (AP) — A proposed anti-abortion amendment to the Kansas Constitution cleared its first hurdle in the Legislature on Tuesday as abortion opponents moved quickly to try to get it on the ballot. The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the measure on a voice vote, sending it to the full ...
Story updated at 12:47 p.m. Tuesday TOPEKA (AP) — State office buildings near the Statehouse have been closed to the public and the Legislature has curtailed its meetings due to security concerns ahead of President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration in Washington, D.C. The closures came in ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Coronavirus deaths are rising in nearly two-thirds of American states as a winter surge pushes the overall toll toward 400,000 amid warnings that a new, highly contagious variant is taking hold. As Americans observed a national holiday Monday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo ...
Lawrence isn’t an island, Edith Guffey repeated during her keynote address at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day event on Monday. There is this idea that the city is special, she said — a “progressive blue dot” — and that it is somehow different from other parts of the state in how it ...
The director of the city’s visitors bureau has announced his upcoming retirement. Explore Lawrence Director Michael Davidson will retire in the spring, according to a news release. Davidson ends his career after thirty plus years in leadership roles in the tourism industry, including leading ...
As part of their effort to better prioritize their budget decisions, city leaders will soon consider a new scoring guide that would affect how millions of tax dollars are spent. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will consider approving a proposed priority-based ...
Last weekend's Class 6A state debate tournament might not have started well for Lawrence High School, but the school's four-speaker team found a way to make sure it ended well, coach Jeff Plinsky said. After starting the virtual tournament with two wins and four losses during the first round ...
A local arts-based social service organization handed out free lunches to the community Monday as part of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The 18- to 24-year-old students in the Arts Train program at Van Go, 715 New Jersey St., helped prepare the meals under the direction of local chef Raven ...
Lawrence Superintendent Anthony Lewis is a long way from Montgomery, Ala. — the “Cradle of the Confederacy” — where he began his teaching career. Now, he’s a leader in a community that was founded as part of the struggle to end slavery. Regardless of its founding by abolitionists, ...
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 up to 6 a.m. on the date listed and extending back to 6 a.m. on the previous day. Each listing includes a date, time and general ...
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A federal judge has awarded more than $1 million in damages to another veteran who says he was sexually abused by a former physician assistant at a VA hospital in Kansas. It’s the third time since November that U.S. District Judge Daniel Crabtree has ruled against ...
