Public Safety

Lawrence crews respond to early-morning fire at city park shelter

Updated at 1:35 p.m. Thursday, March 30, 2023 Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical crews extinguished a fire at a park shelter early Thursday morning that caused an estimated $40,000 in damage. Fire crews were dispatched at 5:50 a.m. to Chief Jim McSwain Park at the corner of East 19th Street ...

FDA approves over-the-counter Narcan; here’s what it means

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved selling the leading version of naloxone without a prescription, setting the overdose-reversing drug on course to become the first opioid treatment drug to be sold over the counter. It's a move that some advocates have long sought as a ...