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. Monday to 6 a.m. Tuesday and includes 176 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
The Douglas County Commission will consider authorizing three conditional use permits during its meeting on Wednesday. The permits have been requested by rural property owners who want to operate a swimming lessons business, run a storage unit for trucks and build a storage unit for boats and ...
In response to high suicide rates among America’s farmers, a new website developed by the Kansas Department of Agriculture provides resources and support to those dealing with stress. Kelsey Olson, KDA’s assistant secretary of agriculture, led the effort in creating the website: ...
TOPEKA — A Kansas congressman who is being investigated by local authorities for listing a UPS Inc. store as his residence in registering to vote has changed his registration to name a Topeka apartment complex as his home. Republican Rep. Steve Watkins is still listing the UPS store in ...
An Olathe man suffered serious injuries in an accident on Kansas Highway 10 Monday afternoon, according to a report from the Kansas Highway Patrol. The man, Seth Beckman, 64, was headed eastbound on K-10 in a Buick LeSabre at mile marker 17, about a half-mile west of Church Street in Eudora, ...
Lawrence high school students will be able to start their school days later next school year, but they will not be required to do so. Rather than pushing back the entire school day to begin at 9 a.m. and end at 4:05 p.m., which was originally under consideration, the school district ...
A jury has been selected in the trial of a Lawrence man charged in connection with a July 2, 2018, shooting that injured two people in the 700 block of West 25th Street. Tommy J. May, 60, is accused of shooting a woman in the face in his apartment, then shooting a man, leaving him paralyzed ...
Updated at 10:47 p.m. Monday: A 17-year-old boy suffered a minor gunshot wound just before 4 a.m. Monday, according to Lawrence police. Officers were dispatched to Lawrence Memorial Hospital when hospital staff reported that a juvenile male patient had arrived at the emergency room with a ...
The city’s Affordable Housing Advisory Board is asking whether part of the money from the city’s affordable housing sales tax should be earmarked for social services such as housing vouchers. The board had the discussion at its meeting Monday, following its most recent round of funding. ...
It is the time of year for rankings. (In my ranking of children, my son fell to No. 5 on my list of two kids after I told him he could get me some music CDs for Christmas. He said he’d stop by the CD store next to the Blockbuster.) Lawrence, however, is not suffering such a fate. It has taken ...
After a tempestuous spring and summer, which brought flooding and destruction of property for some area residents, the fall has been dry. A third of the way through December, only a trace of precipitation has been reported at the Lawrence Municipal Airport, said Daniel Reese, a meteorologist ...
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. Sunday to 6 a.m. Monday and includes 167 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
A University of Kansas researcher has been charged with felony theft, unlawful acts concerning computers and other charges, according to a news release from the Kansas attorney general’s office. Liuqi Gu, 37, of Lawrence, is a postdoctoral researcher with KU’s Department of Ecology and ...
Meeting the in-laws can be daunting. But meeting them in a foreign country where you don’t speak the language and suddenly come down with a life-threatening illness that leaves you temporarily blind and paralyzed is another thing altogether. That’s what happened to Tyron Byrd, a former ...
A former University of Kansas and professional football player told the residents of the O’Connell Youth Ranch not to let society tell a single story about them. Darrell Stuckey, who played safety for KU from 2006 to 2009 before starting a seven-year NFL career with the San Diego Chargers, ...
Marriages Maxwell Campbell, 28, Mission, and Dana Whetter, 29, Mission. Trevor Perry, 29, Lawrence, and Ruth Yaregal, 28, Lawrence. Reginald Demart Harrison, 42, Ottawa, and Donna Nicole Jones, 44, Lawrence. Divorces Sara Dorton, 41, Eudora, and Joshua Dorton, 42, Eudora. Timmothy Bradley ...
The Lawrence school district may take legal action against an e-cigarette company for its role in what the board considers to be an epidemic in schools. The school board on Monday will consider joining a lawsuit against Juul, a large e-cigarette producer. The lawsuit aims to recoup money the ...
Kansas native Shannon Pufahl was mulling over the plot of her first novel long before she began writing “On Swift Horses.” At first, she thought the story would focus on her grandparents, who moved from Kansas to Southern California after the Korean War. Her grandmother spent time in Las ...
Although private schools in Lawrence have seen enrollment grow at a steady pace in recent years, they do not appear to be the culprit for the drop in enrollment at Lawrence public schools for the 2019-2020 school year. During a headcount in September, the school district found a decrease of ...
City leaders will soon hear from an area union that would like the city to make changes to its local resolution governing employee unions. As part of its study session Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will receive a report from Teamsters Local 696 regarding Resolution No. 6817, which the ...
