On a blistering August afternoon, Stephanie stands itching her legs in the heat at the Sedgwick County Zoo. As a three-ton, 54-year old African elephant, leg scratching can be quite the balancing act. That’s no matter to the comparatively small, 400-pound Kijani. The four-month-old male ...
Updated at 4:35 p.m. Friday, Aug. 22 A former Raintree Montessori School employee accused of inappropriately touching two preschoolers three years ago at the private school took a plea agreement on Friday and faces a sentence of more than 15 years in prison. Mateo Clavel Wills, 22, pleaded ...
Ten more City of Lawrence employees have opted for the city's voluntary early retirement program, the city's human resources director told the Journal-World, meaning 30 employees in total have taken the offer since it was announced this spring to help address a budget shortfall. As the ...
Esports, or competitive video gaming, may soon be offered alongside traditional middle and high school sports as an official activity in the Lawrence school district. On Monday, school board members will consider allowing the district to participate in the Kansas State High School Activities ...
During the pandemic and the lockdowns that ensued, Sammy Thomsen remembers trying almost anything to generate a few dollars and stay connected with the customers of her family’s longtime home furnishing store, Winfield House. “There were even a few days where my husband would come with me ...
The state is asking a Douglas County judge to keep the public from seeing the reasons why law enforcement arrested a man accused of numerous sex crimes. The Douglas County District Attorney's Office this week filed motions to have probable cause affidavits sealed in three cases related to ...
