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New lawsuit challenges City of Lawrence’s housing discrimination ordinance
A real estate company has filed a federal lawsuit against the City of Lawrence challenging an ordinance that bans discrimination based on where a potential tenant’s rent payments would come from, such as housing vouchers.
New lawsuit challenges City of Lawrence’s housing discrimination ordinance
A real estate company has filed a federal lawsuit against the City of Lawrence challenging an ordinance that bans discrimination based on where a potential tenant’s rent payments would come from, such as housing vouchers.
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August Rudisell / The Lawrence Times
KU students call for Phi Kappa Psi fraternity to be banned from campus in second night of protests
Easily several hundred protesters gathered again in front of Phi Kappa Psi at the University of Kansas Tuesday night in response to reports of a sexual assault.
Noah Taborda/Kansas Reflector
Kansas House member takes plea deal in Wellsville school case
State Rep. Mark Samsel negotiated a deal with Franklin County prosecutors resulting in probation for guilty pleas to three counts of misdemeanor disorderly conduct emerging from strange physical and verbal encounters with students at Wellsville High School.
Ryan Waggoner
KU’s First Nations Student Association shares ‘absolute indignation’ after Indigenous art vandalized on campus
Leaders of the University of Kansas First Nations Student Association were reeling Friday night, nearly a week after multiple pieces of the KU Common Work of Art were vandalized — not only because of the destruction of the Native exhibit, but because they feel the situation hasn’t garnered enough attention from KU administrators.
August Rudisell / The Lawrence Times
Man killed in shooting in Lawrence, police say
Updated at 10:17 p.m.: A male victim was killed in a shooting in Lawrence Wednesday evening, according to Lawrence police.
Altercation breaks out near Sunset Hill Elementary; Lawrence police investigating
Updated to add video: Lawrence police were investigating Thursday after a reported altercation involving signs near an elementary school, where an anti-mask protester and pro-mask counter-protesters have been stationed often since school began last month.
August Rudisell/The Lawrence Times
Person injured in shooting in Lawrence; police investigating
A person was injured in a reported shooting and taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital Wednesday afternoon, according to scanner traffic.
Getting married next month? Apply for your marriage license today
If you’re getting married in September and you need a Kansas marriage license, the time to apply for it is right now.
Juvenile justice reformers seek return of $21M cut from Kansas intervention program fund
Juvenile justice reformers pleaded for reversal of a decision by Kansas lawmakers to divert $21 million earmarked for community intervention programs and recommended allocation of more funding to innovative grassroots organizations involved in projects to diminish incarceration of children.
Tim Carpenter/Kansas Reflector file photo
Kansas Supreme Court issues stay of lower court’s rejection of emergency management law
The chief of the Kansas Supreme Court issued a stay Tuesday of a district court ruling that declared unconstitutional portions of an emergency management law adopted to recalibrate government authority during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Criminal justice panel explores racial dynamics of traffic stops, gang lists in Kansas
A Kansas criminal justice reform panel is highlighting the dynamic between communities of color and law enforcement during traffic stops as an area in need of immediate attention from lawmakers.
