A speech pathologist who was scheduled to be arraigned Friday on multiple counts of abusing children last year at Prairie Park Elementary School in Lawrence instead received a continuance to mid-April due to the "magnitude" of the case. Mark Gridley appeared briefly late Friday morning in ...
Story updated at 12:04 p.m. Friday, Feb. 27: An organization that monitors the activity of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents said it has confirmed at least two detainments on Friday, with one on the University of Kansas campus. According to a social media post from the ...
LAWRENCE — Two transgender men from Lawrence are suing the state over a new law that invalidates driver’s licenses and restricts bathroom use based on sex assigned at birth, citing numerous constitutional rights and fear of violence. The American Civil Liberties Union and ...
“Currently, there is not a laid-out strategy that the city has adopted to reach those next goals.” Those words were spoken by the city-county sustainability director back in 2019 about Lawrence’s plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. But they might as well have been said by the ...
First responders across Douglas County agencies were honored Thursday night for their heroism and supporting the community during the Douglas County KS First Responder Valor Awards ceremony. The ceremony, held at Abe and Jake’s Landing, 8 E. Sixth St., was the first time the ceremony was ...
The Fire Chiefs of Douglas County issued a burn ban from Thursday evening until Friday, according to a Facebook post from Consolidated Fire District No. 1. The post was made about 8:30 p.m. Thursday and urged people to extinguish all fires and check previous burns to make sure they are out. A ...
