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Court document details evidence allegedly found in fatal hit-and-run north of Lawrence
Investigators found fibers in a truck’s broken headlight that appear consistent with the shirt a Lawrence runner was wearing when she was struck and killed by a driver who fled the scene last month, according to law enforcement documents.
Court document details evidence allegedly found in fatal hit-and-run north of Lawrence
Investigators found fibers in a truck’s broken headlight that appear consistent with the shirt a Lawrence runner was wearing when she was struck and killed by a driver who fled the scene last month, according to law enforcement documents.
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Lawrence City Commission rejects Alvamar apartment complex plan
The Lawrence City Commission on Tuesday voted 4-1 to reject a preliminary plan for a 200-unit apartment complex in west Lawrence’s Alvamar neighborhood.
Tom Harper/Lawrence Times
Lawrence city commissioners approve high-density zoning in Oread neighborhood
Lawrence city commissioners have approved a request to rezone property near KU’s campus for developers to build the densest housing allowed in the city.
August Rudisell/Lawrence Times
Advocates’ draft ordinance aims to put safeguards on Lawrence police camera surveillance tech
Lawrence advocates have drafted an ordinance that aims to create safeguards for the police department’s new system that asks locals to register their security cameras on a list or integrate them for realtime access by police.
Nathan Kramer / Lawrence Times
Participants in Lawrence debate on affordable housing all want to see people housed, but the ‘how’ is complicated
A city co-sponsored debate on affordable housing was not a forum for steel to meet steel, but for community members to question how the city, county and community could ensure more people can afford to be housed.
Nathan Kramer / Lawrence Times
City of Lawrence is poised for major growth, new mayor says
Mayor Brad Finkeldei said he believes downtown Lawrence will be transformed, the city will expand west of K-10 and more development is coming in the next year or two.
Nathan Kramer / Lawrence Times
For some Lawrence housing professionals, the fight against chronic homelessness must be trauma-informed
Some housing professionals, like Angie Bauer with Tenants to Homeowners, say that trauma-informed property management can be critical to keep folks who have experienced chronic homelessness housed.
August Rudisell/Lawrence Times
9th Street businesses ask people to keep shopping local as long-term road closure looms
The city will close a block of 9th Street for the Jayhawk Watershed project for several months starting Monday, and an impacted business is asking folks to make the slightly longer trek to their front doors to shop local this season.
Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
‘Our lives are not disposable’: Lawrence mourns, builds community power at vigil for transgender lives lost to violence
Lawrence community members read the names and stories of all the known transgender people lost to transphobic violence in the U.S. this year. As they detailed the hobbies, friends, professions and passions, partners and pets of those who died, no one was allowed to fade away as a statistic.
Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
North Lawrence residents share hopes for city transparency, community-directed plans for corridor
Many of the roughly 200 people gathered Monday to discuss their priorities for the North Lawrence Corridor Study expressed a mix of enthusiasm to strengthen their community’s resources and trepidation about industrial development and the city’s approach.
August Rudisell/Lawrence Times
Lawrence man accused in hit-and-run charged with leaving the scene of a fatality accident
The district attorney’s office has charged a Lawrence driver suspected of striking and killing a 20-year-old KU student with leaving the scene of a fatality accident.
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