SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — The owner of a South Dakota hotel who said Native Americans were banned from the establishment was found liable for discrimination against Native Americans on Friday. A federal jury decided the owner of the Grand Gateway Hotel in Rapid City will pay tens of thousands of ...
Each year in Lawrence, alongside the long-running “Santa Rescue” event on the day after Thanksgiving, the city marks the official start to the holidays as the mayor flips a switch to turn on holiday lights winding around the trees of downtown Massachusetts Street. Mark Hecker, an assistant ...
Balancing budgets, careers and curveballs, SparkWheel’s student finance program lets kids step into the future and discover how quickly paychecks can disappear. The FutureNow: Finance program is an interactive workshop that SparkWheel hosts in collaboration with partner schools to help ...
KU won’t have a new provost in place when the spring semester begins next month, but it likely will by mid-February or the beginning of March, Chancellor Douglas Girod recently told the Journal-World As reported, University of Kansas Provost Barbara Bichelmeyer announced that she would ...
Nicole Parker didn't win Season 4 of "The Floor," but she made it to the finale, got to spend a week in Ireland, made a slew of new friends and drank some Guinness in Dublin. "Oh my goodness, it's way better in Ireland," she said of the iconic brown brew. She liked the food too. "There was ...
Douglas County and Baldwin City have partnered to preserve and manage Black Jack Battlefield, a 38-acre historic site central to the Bleeding Kansas era. The property is at 163 East 2000th Road near Baldwin City, and it is the site of the June 2, 1856, Battle of Black Jack, which was the ...
