As part of the Watkins Museum’s art competition and exhibit, elementary, middle and high school students are encouraged to submit original artwork expressing their school’s uniqueness.
The National Weather Service in Topeka has issued a tornado watch for Douglas County, effective through 9 p.m. Friday. Storms are also possible with up to tennis ball-size hail.
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Monarch Watch’s free spring open house is coming up, but until then, plenty of pollinator-friendly plants are available for purchase through the organization’s annual online fundraiser.
The Lawrence Police Department will have extra officers patrolling throughout city limits Friday looking for impaired drivers.
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The Lawrence Community Shelter board of directors on Thursday evening voted to ratify the first collective bargaining agreement with the unionized staff.
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A jury on Thursday found Chadwick E. Potter not guilty of second-degree murder in the death last summer of 62-year-old David Sullivan.
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A 37-year-old Lawrence man was the person killed in a head-on crash Wednesday afternoon in Lawrence, and his passenger remained hospitalized as of Thursday afternoon.
Thunderstorms are expected to continue into Thursday evening across northeastern Kansas, possibly to be followed by severe weather Friday and Saturday, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka.
“Emmett Till’s story is not a pleasant story. It’s not a pretty story, but it has to be told,” Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. told a Lawrence crowd of his cousin and friend who was brutally murdered in 1955.
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The KU faculty union has won its election with 86% of the vote.
