Now that gas prices have you again thinking of ways to save money — carpooling, an electric vehicle, boarding a horse in the guest bedroom — I figured you might appreciate some new data on wages. Specifically, there’s new data out that shows what a worker in Douglas County earns on ...
A Lawrence man has been sentenced to eight years in prison after throwing a package of methamphetamine over a prison wall in Hutchinson, where he had formerly been incarcerated, according to a news release Friday from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Kansas. According to court ...
A woman who has worked for decades to keep the man who brutally raped her behind bars is again beseeching the Kansas Parole Board to not put “a very violent sexual predator” back into the community, and the Douglas County district attorney is backing her effort. The woman, Jean Rhea, was ...
Douglas County was awarded federal funding for a guardrail replacement to enhance safety on a rural roadway near Lone Star. Governor Laura Kelly announced on Tuesday that over $8.77 million in federal funds would be awarded to 13 projects aiming to enhance the safety on rural roadways in the ...
Lawrence High and Free State High both will be set to get new running tracks, if Lawrence school board members approve more than $1.5 million worth of construction bids at their Monday meeting. Board members will consider approving bids for work that would include the demolition of the ...
Lawrence's Historic Resources Commission voted Thursday for further review of a proposed “very-high-density” apartment complex to see how the design could better fit the guidelines of the historic Oread neighborhood. Commissioners voted 5-0 Thursday night with one abstention to refer the ...
