With measles cases in Kansas approaching three dozen, the Lawrence-Douglas County health department is urging people to get vaccinated. As of Wednesday, there were 32 known cases of measles in the state, all of them in southwest Kansas. No cases have been reported in Douglas County. ...

Two people testified on Wednesday about the fear and injury they suffered at the hands of a Eudora man; one of them was a Lawrence police officer who required reconstructive surgery after her nose was broken in the attack. The defendant, Jeffrey Montgomery Smith, 61, is charged with one count ...

Lawrence police are seeking the public’s help in identifying a man who allegedly bit the tip of another man’s finger off near a bar in downtown Lawrence. According to a release on Wednesday from the Lawrence Police Department, police were called to a bar near Seventh and Massachusetts ...

A mother who says she was fed up with her son being bullied obtained a court order prohibiting the alleged bully from going anywhere near her son. Problem solved, she thought, until this question came into focus: How is the order to be enforced if both boys go to the same school? The mother, ...

The search for a 74-year-old Lawrence woman has expanded into neighboring Johnson County after she was reported missing nearly three weeks ago. Wanda Dyer is a 5-foot-2 African American woman with signs of dementia who has short gray hair and was last seen wearing a black coat with a pink ...

Overland Park — A Lawrence attorney on Tuesday argued to a traveling panel of appellate judges that a Douglas County judge made a big mistake when he dismissed a lawsuit by a group of Lawrence landlords over the city's new ordinance forbidding discrimination based on the source of ...