Mackenzie Clark/Lawrence Times
The teen girl who picked up another teen shortly after he allegedly shot a Lawrence boy testified Thursday to her recollection of that day’s events, some of which conflicts with the boy’s friends’ stories.
Nathan Kramer
The Lawrence school district will have no more early dismissal on Wednesdays this year for middle and high schoolers to compensate for snow days, leaving some high schoolers upset enough to walk out.
A Lawrence teen told legislators Thursday morning that a sales tax exemption for menstruation products, diapers and incontinence products would benefit Kansans as well as a local nonprofit.
Natasha Torkzaban/Lawrence Times
After two fatal shootings in two days, the Lawrence police chief wants to assure the community that the city and downtown are safe.
Though Kansans and Missourians are still reeling from a February mass shooting that left dozens injured and one dead, a Kansas lawmaker is pushing to change gun regulations in the state so that the “feds” can’t interfere with gun owners like himself.
Mackenzie Clark/Lawrence Times
The defense attorney representing a teen charged with the shooting death of a Lawrence boy has proposed an alternative suspect; however, a Lawrence detective who worked on the case said the evidence doesn’t support that.
Andrea Albright / Lawrence Times
A person was killed in a shooting in the 700 block of Vermont Street in downtown Lawrence, according to police.
Mackenzie Clark/Lawrence Times
Prosecutors say a Lawrence teen took a long-running disagreement to a lethal level, shooting and killing a 14-year-old boy last March. But the teen’s defense attorney is pointing at another potential suspect.
An 18-year-old man was shot in Lawrence Tuesday night and taken to a Kansas City-area hospital with critical injuries, but he did not survive, according to police.
Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
Certainly Black writers have always contributed to American literature, Maryemma Graham recalls thinking during her college class one day in 1972. That day, a seed was planted that would become the History of Black Writing.
