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Early voting started Wednesday for the city primary races, and advance ballots are hitting mailboxes. The primary will narrow the field of nine candidates for Lawrence City Commission and a dozen for Lawrence school board to six each.
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This edition of the To Do List! spans from July 18-Aug. 1. Some highlights: Calvin Arsenia will play at the Replay Lounge; llamas will strut their stuff at the Douglas County Fair; and dancers will wow at the Lead Horse Open II.
A 15-year-old girl suffered suspected serious injuries when a large nut and bolt fell through the windshield of the vehicle she was in, according to a Kansas Highway Patrol crash report.
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Legal experts say just because you received care doesn’t entitle a hospital to a bonkers high price. Still, fighting an unreasonable bill takes some work. Here’s how to do it.
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An ex-Lawrence police officer constructed a criminal case against a skateboarder in an attempt to avoid, essentially, the excessive force lawsuit that was filed Friday in federal court, the complaint alleges.
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Douglas County has confirmed 22 new cases of COVID-19 since Wednesday, and the county’s moving 14-day case average continued to tick upward as the United States deals with rising case totals due to the more contagious Delta variant of the virus.
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Rontarus Washington Jr. will go to trial, for the second time, in 367 days.
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Kansas lawmakers are praising a new law that creates the crime of sexual extortion and removes a spousal exemption to sexual battery. It also prohibits a court from ordering a victim of a crime to undergo a psychological evaluation.
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As of early Friday morning, a fire that started overnight in a salvage area in East Lawrence was expected to continue “for a good amount of the day today,” according to Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical.
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The KBI will, at least temporarily, continue to keep in the dark records that could finally shed light on a case of police violence that has been imprinted in the fabric of Lawrence for exactly 51 years.
