Horses and decorated carriages and wagons took center stage Saturday for the 31st annual Lawrence Old-Fashioned Christmas Parade in downtown Lawrence.

With metal funnels, colored sand and extremely steady hands, eight Buddhist monks are crafting a 5-foot-wide mandala this week in the Lawrence Arts Center's lobby. From now through Saturday, visitors to the Arts Center can watch for free as the monks from the Drepung Gomang monastery ...

Lawrence kicked off the holiday season on Friday with the annual downtown lighting ceremony — and Santa, as usual, got stuck atop Weaver's and had to be rescued by a Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical truck.