Today, Jan. 18 AARP Driver Safety, Senior Center at Peaslee Tech, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. 2920 Haskell Ave. Library Storytime (ages 3 and older), 10:30-11:15 a.m., Lawrence PUblic Library, 707 Vermont St. Community Resource Clinic, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., Meeting Room B, Lawrence Public Library, 707 ...
Update, 8:40 p.m. Friday, Jan. 18, 2019: Kaw Valley Eagles Day has been canceled because of inclement weather. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Clinton Lake said in an email to the Journal-World that no alternate date has been set yet. This weekend, the talents of local middle and high ...
NEW YORK — A hamburger a week, but no more — that's about as much red meat people should eat to do what's best for their health and the planet, according to a report seeking to overhaul the world's diet. Eggs should be limited to fewer than about four a week, the report says. Dairy foods ...
TOPEKA — The Kansas Department of Labor is recommending that federal employees who are furloughed because of the partial government shutdown should apply for unemployment benefits. The department said in a news release Thursday that unemployment insurance was created to help people who are ...
A Pier 1 wicker chair has been known to create its share of medical issues. (Take your after-dinner nap in a wicker chair at your own risk.) So, maybe it isn’t such an odd twist that the former Pier 1 retail building on south Iowa Street is set to become a doctor’s office. Leaders with ...
The Douglas County Sheriff's Office says a Lawrence man, arrested on suspicion of domestic violence, briefly escaped law enforcement custody when he bolted from the hospital on Wednesday. After his arrest, John E. Ouellette, 40, was taken from the jail via ambulance to the Lawrence hospital ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours. Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Wednesday to 6 a.m. Thursday and includes 200 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
A popular annual festival in downtown Lawrence is going to look a little different this year. The 12th annual Lawrence Busker Festival, scheduled for May 24-26, will feature only female performers, organizer Richard Renner said Wednesday. Renner decided to go with such a lineup after Linsey ...
Steven Davis won’t be dropping any major “bombshells” about former Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s office when he testifies before a Douglas County grand jury Tuesday. Davis said he doesn’t have any, which is essentially why he pursued summoning a grand jury to ...
Lawmakers representing Douglas County in the Kansas Legislature were glad to hear Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s focus on three main issues during her State of the State address Wednesday. “There were no surprises for me from what the governor discussed in her State of the State,” said ...
TOPEKA — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly outlined a proposed budget Thursday that would commit Kansas to higher spending on public schools, expand its Medicaid health insurance program — and cut the state’s annual funding for public pensions to help pay for her initiatives. Kelly’s release ...
Today, Jan. 17 Willow Drop-In, 9 a.m.–12 p.m., Atrium Study Room, Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. Toddler Storytime (ages 2-3), 9:30-10 a.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. “After the Election: Children’s Issues in Kansas,” featuring Annie McKay, 11:30 a.m., ...
Douglas County commissioners once hoped for a $44 million plan to expand and modernize the local jail. On Wednesday, the interim county administrator cautiously produced a new estimate of $23 million for complete construction and furnishing of a pared-down version of the expansion, which has ...
Topeka — New Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly told Kansas legislators Wednesday in her State of the State address that the state is “completely unprepared” for the next national economic downturn and called on them to help her “rebuild” after “a decade of crisis.” Kelly outlined an ...
The project team facilitating the addition of art to East Ninth Street will hold its second of three community input meetings Thursday. The Community Visioning Workshop will include a conversation about potential art projects and installations along East Ninth Street, according to a news ...
The majority of reaction to the unusual — and controversial — appointment of a dean at the University of Kansas “has been positive,” KU Chancellor Douglas Girod said Wednesday, but he declined to say whether the appointment would be made. Girod briefly commented on the matter Wednesday ...
The city of Lawrence is looking for residents’ input on the design of the city’s first bike boulevards, which will modify two city streets to make them user-friendly for cyclists and pedestrians. The city has released a survey that asks residents to identify the top three features they ...
A man convicted of raping a teenager he met at a Lawrence bar will not face an additional trial on a related rape charge the jury couldn't agree on. Instead, Albert N. Wilson, 23, of Wichita, will be sentenced for the single rape conviction the jury returned last week. On Wednesday, Wilson ...
A free upcoming event is geared toward middle school-age girls interested in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) fields. Make It Happen KU is a half-day conference for girls in fifth through eighth grades and their mothers or parental figures. It’s scheduled for 9 a.m. to 12:45 ...
Basketball may be king in Lawrence, but soon soccer may be the first sport you see coming into town. Plans for a new soccer complex along the South Lawrence Trafficway east of Lawrence are moving forward again. I reported in 2016 on plans to convert a farm field just west of the water ski ...