The public will soon be able to provide input on what developments they would like to see in low-income areas of the city that have been designated as federal opportunity zones. There are two Lawrence census tracts designated as opportunity zones, and developments within their limits are ...
Lawrence now has its own teenage environmental advocate calling for action to address climate change. But unlike Greta Thunberg — the Swedish girl who has traveled around the world to spread awareness about the dangers of global warming — Morgan Orozco, 16, said she was focused on her ...
After pointing a revolver at a driver on a major Lawrence street, court documents allege, a man and a woman holed up inside an apartment, telling police, “We ain’t coming out.” Chandler Allen Grey, 27, and Domonique Calvian Edwards, 22, of Lawrence, were arrested late the evening of ...
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. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Wednesday to 6 a.m. Thursday and includes 235 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
Don’t expect Lawrence’s real estate market to regain its bounce in 2020, a Wichita State economist told Lawrence Realtors on Thursday. A slight decline is more likely for the number of home sales next year. Stanley Longhofer, director of the WSU Center for Real Estate, is forecasting that ...
TOPEKA — A former Kansas Democratic congresswoman has dropped out of the race for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Republican Pat Roberts. Former U.S. Rep. Nancy Boyda formed a campaign committee in June to run for the Democratic nomination next year. Former federal prosecutor and ...
The first freeze of the season may be coming to Lawrence and Douglas County this weekend as a cold front moves in Thursday evening. The National Weather Service in Topeka has issued a freeze watch from Friday evening into Saturday morning. Temperatures are expected to fall into the lower 50s ...
The public is invited to attend classes at Haskell Indian Nations University on Saturday as part of Haskell's “A Day at the U” event. All courses are free and open to the public. Courses will take place from 9:10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and all courses except one are 50 minutes. “A Day at the ...
Matt O'Reilly, an associate professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering at the University of Kansas, has been selected as the 2019 recipient of the HOPE Award. HOPE stands for "Honor for Outstanding Progressive Educator." It's the only award given to a ...
An accident that has snarled traffic on a Kansas City-area interstate is causing delivery delays of Thursday's edition of the Lawrence Journal-World. Subscribers and newsstand vendors will receive their copies of the Thursday Journal-World later than its normal 6 a.m. arrival time. Crews ...
The Douglas County Commission didn't suggest any changes to a proposed comprehensive plan for the county and the City of Lawrence at a Wednesday work session, and one commissioner praised the plan's focus on preserving rural areas. Wednesday's session was the commission's first look at the ...
Kansas City, Kan. — A fugitive suspected of taking part in a mass shooting last weekend at a Kansas bar that killed four people and wounded five others was given probation last year for trafficking contraband in prison instead of more time behind bars. Hugo Villanueva-Morales could have ...
Kansas basketball coach Bill Self on Wednesday spoke favorably about the new law in California that allows student-athletes in the state to profit on their name, likeness and image, calling the law “a very, very positive step” that puts the pay-for-play issue “on the front porch of ...
Kansas basketball coach Bill Self said Wednesday that it was not his intent to taunt the NCAA or anyone else with the promotional video and performance by Snoop Dogg at Late Night last week. The rapper’s performance, which featured pole dancers, profanity-laced lyrics and fake $100 bills ...
A 52-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of arson Tuesday morning after first responders were called to smoldering barricades in downtown Lawrence. Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical responded to the call at 1047 Massachusetts St. at 4:47 a.m. Tuesday, Division Chief of Administration Tom ...
Eleven organizations in Douglas County failed state health code inspections in September. Each month, I take a look at inspection results and list every place either listed out of compliance or with 10 or more code violations. Full reports are available online at agriculture.ks.gov. There, ...
A Lawrence man who had faced a charge of attempted second-degree murder was sentenced Wednesday to 68 months — five years and eight months — in prison, after pleading no contest to lesser charges. Alfred Dewayne Sanders, 47, pleaded no contest on Sept. 4 to six felonies: three counts of ...
A local tourism leader is asking that the Lawrence City Commission closely consider whether recent shifts in how the city spends an additional sales tax charged to Lawrence visitors are appropriate. As part of its study session Tuesday, the commission discussed its recent allocation of ...
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. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Tuesday to 6 a.m. Wednesday and includes 184 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
Kathi Fair never thought of herself as artistic, partly because she was never encouraged as a young person to do so. But now she knows better. “You can escape what people tell you,” she said of her artistic “awakening” in her mid-50s. That’s when, after working as an auctioneer and ...
