Lawrence News

Harrison County Sheriff Patrick Sears says Friday that 59-year-old Alan C. Nelson of Lawrence, Kan., died Monday after being struck by a Union Pacific train just east of the Missouri River.

Kansas House Taxation Committee Chairman Richard Carlson, a St. Marys Republican, has been the point man in trying to negogiate a compromise between House and Senate positions on tax issues.

Henry Fortunato, director of public affairs at the Kansas City Public Library and director emeritus of the KU History Project, will be the Simons Public Humanities Fellow for 2013-2014 at the Hall Center for the Humanities at the University of Kansas.

A long-range plan for the state's highways suggests that Kansas Highway 10 between Lawrence and Johnson County become a partial toll road.

Washington, May 24: Chandigarh-born "trailblazer" Indian-American legal luminary Srikanth 'Sri' Srinivasan has made history with the US Senate unanimously confirming him as the first South Asian judge on the powerful appeals court for the American capital.

A music festival is an organism, a child prodigy, a light at the end of the tunnel.

The City of Lawrence newest traffic signal will be fully functional on Wednesday, May 29.

Owen has been working on new material , which will result in his new album, L'Ami due Peuple , due out on July 2 via Polyvinyl.

Bond was set at $150,000 Wednesday for a 20-year-old Topekan who has been charged in the shootings of two Topeka men early Sunday in Lawrence.

The recent tornado in Moore, Okla. is a reminder to our community that emergency planning and preparation is critical to surviving a natural disaster.

The reception will include remarks by this year's juror for the exhibition, Porter Arneill, who is the Public Art Administrator for Kansas City, Missouri.

A 27-year-old Topeka man and a 33-year-old Topeka man, whose names haven't been released, were taken to Kansas City area hospitals with gunshot wounds that were considered life-threatening, said Lawrence police Sgt.

Tornadoes and severe thunderstorms swept across Kansas and Oklahoma on Sunday, uprooting trees, downing power lines and causing structural damage to homes and businesses.

With session-ending budget and tax negotiations stalled Friday, the Senate found time to pass a bill barring state dollars from going toward advocating gun control.

Shown is the main gate of Glenwood Gardens in Bakersfield, Calif., Monday March 4, 2013, where an elderly woman died after a nurse refused to perform CPR on her last week.

Republican senators and House members sat side-by-side Thursday morning in a groundbreaking joint caucus the supermajority party hopes will repair rifts caused by tax wrangling and bring about a deal that could end the legislative session.

All the recruiting news out of Lawrence, Kan., on Tuesday centered around the nation's No.

About 4,000 graduates are expected to take part in the University of Kansas' commencement ceremony Sunday at Memorial Stadium in Lawrence.

A KCTV5 survey of fire drill logs from a dozen Kansas school districts in the area revealed a number of schools failing to conduct monthly drills as required by state law.

Andrew Wiggins has shocked the world, choosing Kansas as his NCAA destination over favourites Florida State and Kentucky, and darkhorse North Carolina.