Melissa Clover, a fourth grade teacher at Deerfield Elementary School, was awarded the 2025 Dedication to Education Award during an all-school assembly on Monday. The Lawrence Schools Foundation presented the award along with a $5,000 check. The assembly on Monday morning for students and ...
A special Lawrence school board meeting will be held this week for the annual evaluation of Superintendent Jeanice Swift. The meeting will be at 6 p.m. Wednesday at the district's Facilities and Operations Office, 711 E. 23rd St. In addition to the evaluation on Swift, there will also be ...
Lawrence city leaders will consider approving the city’s outline of its legislative goals heading into 2026, which includes a request to prohibit transporting homeless people from other counties into Lawrence, supporting more programs to address housing shortages and policies that support ...
Lawrence city commissioners on Tuesday will discuss potential funding options to assist development of an affordable housing project in East Lawrence’s Warehouse Arts District. Commissioners will consider a variety of funding ways to allow for the waiving of certain development fees ...
An eight-year-old pitbull’s life had changed forever after an outing to the Lawrence Pride Festival this past July. The dog, known as Lilo, was roaming downtown Lawrence amid rainbow flags and festival music, far from the kennel she had grown used to at the Lawrence Humane Society. While ...
LOS ANGELES — Federal authorities said Monday that they foiled a plot to bomb multiple sites of two U.S. companies on New Year's Eve in Southern California after arresting members of an extremist anti-capitalist and anti-government group. The four suspects were arrested Friday in the ...
