Douglas County commissioners on Wednesday will discuss a message they want to send to the city of Lawrence regarding the Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical department. After Lawrence City Manager Tom Markus indicated that he did not intend to include a county representative in the hiring ...
City leaders have started to narrow down a field of two dozen candidates for the position of city manager, and three finalists for the city’s top administrative job will be announced in coming weeks. Instead of its regularly scheduled meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission held an ...
The David Beaty era at the University of Kansas may have ended on the field in November of 2018, but the athletic department that fired him hasn’t heard the last from its former embattled head football coach. Beaty filed a lawsuit against his former employer, Kansas Athletics Inc., on ...
A globe would come in handy when talking with Jeffrey Cornish, the new president and CEO of the United Way of Douglas County, about the timeline of his career. Cornish's resume includes nonprofit work in central Eurasian countries like Georgia and Azerbaijan, as well as in Africa and ...
A Lawrence police officer has resigned from the force after being charged with a felony in an apparent off-duty road rage incident in Johnson County. Jeffrey B. Holtzman, 52, of Lawrence, is charged with aggravated assault for allegedly threatening another man with a deadly weapon on Oct. 18, ...
Nearly half of people — 48 percent — with serious mental illnesses who were released from the Douglas County Jail from January to June 2017 returned within six months. Of that group, 38 percent were brought back to jail because they missed a court appearance. Those statistics are two of ...
WICHITA — Wichita State University has announced the death of its president after an illness. The university said in a news release that 70-year-old John William Bardo died Tuesday at Wesley Medical Center. He was admitted to the hospital in late November suffering from a chronic lung ...
TOPEKA — If Kansas' highest court is going to force state lawmakers to boost public education funding again, some conservative Republicans want something in return, including a say in how the extra money is spent and a voucher program to allow bullied kids to switch to private schools. A ...
TOPEKA — A Kansas Senate subcommittee later this week will consider recommending an $18 million higher education funding plan with the chance for it to jump up to $51 million. Republican state Sen. Ed Berger, chair of the higher education subcommittee, on Tuesday suggested a funding plan for ...
The city is seeking people to help plant spring flowers in downtown Lawrence. The Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department needs 12 to 15 volunteers to plant flowers from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. on March 29 throughout downtown, according to a city news release. Volunteers must be at least 16 and ...
A criminal case against a Free State High School student who reportedly told police he’d had thoughts of “shooting up a school” has been dismissed. After the teen successfully completed an Immediate Intervention Program — similar to getting a diversion in an adult case — with Douglas ...
A Lawrence woman is the new volunteer president of AARP Kansas, the organization has announced. Judy Bellome will serve as the volunteer leader for the state’s 318,000 AARP members and hundreds of volunteers across Kansas, according to a news release from the organization. Bellome ...
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. Monday to 6 a.m. Tuesday and includes 209 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
A one-block covered walkway in downtown Lawrence is set to be removed beginning next week. Demolition and other work will begin Monday on the pedestrian canopy, sidewalks and underground infrastructure in the walkway alley that runs behind the buildings that make up the 800 block of ...
Story updated at 4:07 p.m. Tuesday BOSTON — Fifty people, including a former University of Kansas tennis standout-turned-coach and Hollywood stars Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, were charged Tuesday in a scheme in which wealthy parents allegedly bribed college coaches and other insiders ...
I’ve seen crazy sights at a fast-food drive thru. (I still don’t understand why that Chihuahua was taking my order at Taco Bell for a good part of the 1990s.) But I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone get a turkey taco at a drive-thru. That, however, is indeed possible at a new type of ...
One man was taken to a regional hospital after a fight with another man Monday night, Lawrence police said. Police responded just before 8 p.m. to the intersection of East 23rd and Harper streets, where two men were fighting, Officer Shawn Gross said in an email to media Tuesday morning. He ...
A Lawrence man has been convicted of molesting an 11-year-old girl. Robert W. Copas, 36, of Lawrence, pleaded no contest Monday in Douglas County District Court to a single count of aggravated indecent liberties with a child, a felony. Prior to the plea deal, Copas had been charged with a ...
Members of the city’s affordable housing board want to allow two homes to be built on one lot as long as at least one is designated as an affordable home or rental. As part of its meeting Monday, the Affordable Housing Advisory Board reviewed a preliminary draft of changes to the city’s ...
The Douglas County Criminal Justice Coordinating Council will hear a report Tuesday that details the county's criminal justice services for 2018. Among slides in the report from Pam Weigand, the county’s director of criminal justice services, are demographics and statistics for populations ...
