The Senior Resource Center for Douglas County is warning about scammers posing as someone with the center and claiming to be selling burial plots, and it wants to advise residents on how to avoid being scammed. Megan Poindexter, the executive director of the SRC, told the Journal-World the ...
Anybody who remembers the approximately 20-year effort to win approval for the South Lawrence Trafficway project, likely recalls there’s a formula to the process — first the bureaucrats, then the bulldozers. That formula still holds, which means this was a big week for an approximately ...
Lawrence school board members will hold a special meeting Friday morning to convene an executive session on a contract negotiation. The executive session, according to a news release from the district, is for the purpose of discussing “negotiations in order to protect the public interest in ...
The University of Kansas Medical Center has been awarded a five-year, $31 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to coordinate clinical trials for infants and children in rural and underserved areas. The grant is the largest five-year award in the history of KU Medical Center and ...
Below is a list of individuals who have been arrested and charged with a felony crime in Douglas County. Due to lag times in charging and records processing, the reporting period for this report is from 5 p.m. Tuesday to 5 p.m. Wednesday. Defendants should be presumed innocent unless proven ...
WASHINGTON — A divided Supreme Court allowed states to cut off Medicaid money to Planned Parenthood in a ruling handed down Thursday amid a wider Republican-backed push to defund the country's biggest abortion provider. The 6-3 opinion comes in a case that wasn't directly about abortion. ...
