It's one thing to study a list of words for a spelling bee. But it's another thing entirely to memorize more than a hundred facts about geography, Latin, science and more and recite them on cue.
That's exactly what 12-year-old Wyatt Markham, of Lawrence, is preparing to do in next month's ...
For the past year and beyond, adding emergency shelter capacity has been an unavoidable topic in Lawrence.
Some key moves have advanced that goal: the Lawrence Community Shelter’s shift to a shared governance model with the City of Lawrence and Douglas County, followed a few months later by ...
Award-winning author Sam Quinones might be an expert — although, perhaps, a controversial one — on tent cities across America.
After all, his latest book, “The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth” has an entire chapter titled “Pimps & ...
Six men were arrested earlier this week in Lawrence on suspicion of buying sexual relations.
The Douglas County Jail booking log indicates that all six were arrested Thursday at Lawrence Police Department headquarters.
Four of the men are from Lawrence, one is from Carbondale and one is from ...
A lawyer who has served as both a prosecutor and defense attorney has announced his candidacy for Douglas County district attorney.
Dakota Loomis on Saturday announced that he will seek the Democratic nomination for the post currently held by Democrat Suzanne Valdez. Loomis is the second ...
TOPEKA — Kansas will remain among the handful of states that haven't legalized the medical use of marijuana or expanded their Medicaid programs for at least another year.
Republican state senators on Friday blocked efforts to force debates on both issues before the GOP-controlled ...