A 37-year-old defendant sobbed as three successive “not guilty” verdicts were read Thursday in Douglas County District Court, acquitting him in a Lawrence teenager’s 2021 fentanyl overdose death.

The Lawrence Parks, Recreation and Culture department plans to present its proposal to add fees and membership options to the ...

As organizers of the Rock Chalk Roundball Classic continue to stress, the event’s focus will always be on children battling ...

The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s assistance in identifying people possibly connected to burglaries ...

Youth job training, a child care assistance fund and money that would keep a housing project for chronically homeless ...

Trinity Vintage & Garage Sale, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Trinity Episcopal Church, 1011 Vermont St. Continues Saturday morning. Summer ...

When Lance Leipold was an assistant coach at Nebraska-Omaha, the start of the football season was quite a ways away from July ...

An Oregon judge on Wednesday sentenced former NBA player Ben McLemore to over eight years in prison, a week after a jury ...

Douglas County commissioners on Wednesday approved a site plan for improvements to a golf complex, which will include a new ...

The Higher Learning Commission has changed Haskell Indian Nations University’s accreditation status from “accredited” to “accredited on notice,” and it says the school is “at risk of being out of ...

Over years of reporting on LGBTQ+ issues, Nico Lang has noticed something missing in discussions about transgender kids in ...

Kansas coach Lance Leipold didn’t know quarterback Jalon Daniels was bringing his receiving corps to California until the ...