Two motorists were killed in separate accidents Friday in Leavenworth County. According to an online Kansas Highway Patrol accident report, Gary W. Story, 83, of Tonganoxie, was killed in a two-vehicle accident at 12:05 p.m. Friday at the intersection of U.S. Highway 24 and Stone Creek Drive ...
Citing her desire to give her community something different, Baldwin City cafe and bakery owner Lori Gardner is expanding her business to include a new restaurant that will serve hamburgers, hot dogs and other classic fare. Gardner opened Homestead Kitchen and Bakery at 719 Eighth St. in 2018. ...
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 ...
Douglas County has reported 2,174 cases of COVID-19 as of Friday, an increase of 25 cases since Thursday. The county has averaged about 16 new cases per day over the last 14 days, according to a 14-day moving average graph updated weekdays by the health department. The current average of 16 ...
The $80,000 settlement between the City of Lawrence and a Black driver who was shot by a rookie police officer after a traffic stop turned violent has been finalized. The driver, Akira Lewis, filed an excessive-force lawsuit in September 2019 against former Lawrence Police Officer Brindley ...
Douglas County's health department has altered its metrics and goals for its weekly “Smart and Safe” community scorecard — a change its leaders say is a better reflection of the current situation — but the new metrics also include less information than before. The new version of the ...
The University of Kansas' cumulative COVID-19 case total has risen by 12 since the university last released data on Tuesday — by far the lowest uptick since the university began regularly sharing data. KU has now confirmed 950 cases of the respiratory virus since its mass entry testing ...
The bleachers inside David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium won’t look quite so empty at the KU football team’s next home game. After the Jayhawks played their Sept. 12 opener without any fans, KU Chancellor Douglas Girod announced Friday the team’s Oct. 3 matchup with Oklahoma State will ...
Members of Ellsworth County Fire and Rescue have credited a Lawrence woman and her friends with saving strangers’ lives from a fiery car crash. Makenzie Rodgers, 24, of Lawrence, was driving to Colorado for a vacation with her friends, Jacque Shorten, 23, and her husband Josh Shorten, 25, ...
WICHITA — Wichita State University President Jay Golden resigned Friday, less than a year after he was hired, the Kansas Board of Regents said Friday. Regents chair Bill Feuerborn issued a brief statement announcing Golden's resignation, but it offered few details of what led up to ...
Lawrence schools could soon be moving to a hybrid learning model after starting the school year with six weeks of fully remote classes. The Lawrence school board on Monday will consider a plan to move to a hybrid learning model on Oct. 19, when the district’s initial plan of fully remote ...
TOPEKA (AP) — Kansas reported Friday that it had more than 1,300 new coronavirus cases over two days, and most of the biggest spikes over the past two weeks occurred in rural counties in the central and western parts of the state. The state Department of Health and Environment said Kansas ...
A month into his prison sentence for four felonies, Lawrence developer Thomas Fritzel remains in federal prison despite his request for home confinement. However, it remains unclear whether his request to serve his sentence at his Lawrence home is still under review or has been denied. Bureau ...
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 $720,000 renovation to the health department — funded largely by federal pandemic money — is about to get underway and will cause a temporary relocation of clinic services, according to a news release from Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health. The Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic ...
TOPEKA (AP) — The Kansas Supreme Court affirmed on Friday convictions for first-degree murder and battery stemming from a 2015 shooting at the Roxy bar in Overland Park. The court ruled that Dale Willis' claims of jury instruction errors were barred because he had requested and agreed to ...
BELLE PLAINE (AP) — More than 1,500 Kansans did not have their votes counted in the August primary because their mail ballots arrived too late, but many of them were uncounted because voters didn’t mail them on time, election data shows. A 2017 state law that aims to mitigate the impact of ...
Zach Zimmer’s roommates at Benedictine College had grown accustomed to seeing him stressed. But on the first Saturday in September, the college junior got them worried. He was running a temperature of 101.5. “We knew immediately at that moment,” Zimmer said, “that this could be ...
OVERLAND PARK, Kansas — With about six weeks before the election, you might see Republican Amanda Adkins’ team out knocking on doors in Johnson, Wyandotte or Miami counties. Democratic U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids’ outreach efforts in her re-election bid are virtual. It’s just one sign of ...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican legislators in Kansas have started pushing to give more of their colleagues a say in how the state manages protracted emergencies such as the coronavirus pandemic after months of conflict between them and Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly. A Republican-led ...
