A Douglas County supportive housing program helping chronically homeless residents secure stable housing has generated an estimate of nearly $108,000 in public service savings, according to a new county analysis. A work session was requested by the Douglas County Commission to provide an ...
A Douglas County judge on Tuesday sentenced a man to 18 months of probation for distribution of fentanyl, pursuant to a plea agreement, and she commended him for being an exemplary defendant while awaiting disposition of his case. Judge Amy Hanley made a point to read aloud a complimentary ...
SEATTLE (AP) — A portion of one of the most ambitious ocean monitoring networks ever built will go dark this month when scientists board a research vessel and motor off the Oregon coast to pull a research buoy from deep out of the Pacific. The buoy 80 meters (260 feet) below the water's ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is scrapping plans to create a $1.8 billion fund meant to compensate allies of the Republican president, the Justice Department's top official said Tuesday in retreating from a program that faced setbacks in the courts and a fierce political backlash ...
After a Lawrence-based nonprofit received a $250,000 grant from the FIFA Global Citizen Education Fund, its leader said the donation will make a big difference to the students it supports. The nonprofit, SparkWheel, announced it was one of the 27 organizations worldwide that received support ...
Representatives from the Lawrence Police Department, Douglas County Sheriff's Office, KU, Eudora and Baldwin City police departments and Douglas County Special Olympics athletes carried the Flame of Hope for the area leg of its journey before the Kansas Summer Games. Their leg of the run ...
