Local government leaders, amid a number of lawsuits, are grappling with the question of public comment protocol at meetings, and incidents this week have illustrated some of the challenges they face. On Tuesday, a frequent public commenter, using a fake and pornographic name, addressed city ...
A Kansas women's health clinic that has often served as an epicenter of conflict over abortion rights has temporarily stopped offering the procedure, exacerbating a strain on services in one of the few states in the region still allowing abortions. The move this week at the Trust Women clinic ...
An Olathe man has been given a suspended sentence of more than two years in prison after a Douglas County jury earlier this year found him guilty of choking a woman and destroying her cellphone so that she could not call for help. Judge Amy Hanley on Thursday sentenced Austin Wayne Kidder, 32, ...
The attorney for a Lawrence man now convicted of threatening students near Free State High School with a rifle said on Friday that the man was expecting probation after entering into a plea agreement with the state. The man, Maurice De’Anton Thomas Buckner, 33, was charged with one felony ...
The University of Kansas has selected a University of Georgia professor and administrator to be its next vice chancellor for research. Shelley Hooks, the associate vice president for research at UGA and a professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences at UGA’s College ...
Many a white-knuckled driver on the western leg of the South Lawrence Trafficway likely thinks of a particular number as they seek a gap — or perhaps divine intervention — to make a pass on the busy highway. The number: Four. As in, when are they ever going to make this !%&@# highway a ...
