To Bobbie Flory, the leader of the Lawrence Home Builders Association, the city’s plan to create a library of ready-to use housing designs with a fast-tracked approval process makes good sense. But there’s a caveat: It won’t help the city add new housing unless the designs are things ...
A massage therapist accused of multiple sex crimes against nearly a dozen women doesn't want jurors to hear potentially incriminating statements he made to police, but jurors likely will hear those statements after a Douglas County judge on Tuesday declined to suppress them. Attorneys for ...
John Worden will become the new chief executive officer of the University of Kansas Health System’s St. Francis Campus in Topeka beginning next year. Worden — the current CEO of KU’s Great Bend Campus — will succeed Scott Campbell, who announced he would be retiring at the end of this ...
For decades, big box stores have been a big argument in Lawrence. In the mid-1990s, it was Super Target. There was a lot of community angst that Super Target was going to be a super threat to downtown Lawrence. A couple of years later, it was Borders bookstore. There was a lot of angst that ...
“My name is Alex Red Corn … and apparently I’m your new president.” So began the remarks by Haskell Indian Nations University’s 10th president, Alex Red Corn, who was inaugurated Tuesday night before a cheering crowd inside Haskell’s auditorium. Hundreds were in attendance, as Red ...
For the staff going to work at Bowersock Mills and Power Company, encountering people living outside with serious mental health or substance use problems is not new. “I and my staff can’t get to work any day of the week without encountering someone that is really suffering from addiction ...
