4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (439+ words) Sep 8, 2026 - 2:17pm A woman who was accused of stealing a City of Lawrence bus last summer and driving it across town has pleaded no contest to lesser charges and is scheduled to be sentenced next month. As the Journal-World reported, the…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (732+ words) Sep 4, 2026 - 11:32pm LAWRENCE — A University of Kansas journalism graduate is suing the Pentagon after being fired from the Stars and Stripes for comments about the military publication’s editorial freedom. Lara Korte received a notice of separation from the Pentagon on Aug....

2+ week, 8+ hour ago   (568+ words) Aug 29, 2026 - 5:06pm Judge Noël Wise, in a ruling Friday, delivered a victory for The Stanford Daily, the student newspaper at Stanford University, which has said some international students were afraid to speak out because of the deportation threat. “Freedom of speech…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (1038+ words) Aug 25, 2026 - 9:13pm A Douglas County jury on Tuesday watched dramatic video of a so-called citizen journalist being arrested for interfering with the duties of a police officer at the scene of a “high-intensity” armed standoff, and they heard from a teen…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (840+ words) Aug 24, 2026 - 8:37pm Phillip Michael Eravi appears at his trial in Douglas County District Court on Aug. 24, 2026, with his attorney, Angela Keck. A Lawrence police sergeant testified for hours on Monday about her order to arrest a so-called “First Amendment auditor” who…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (605+ words) Aug 18, 2026 - 3:22pm Mia was shot the evening of July 26, and the couple’s 27-year-old son, Elijah, was arrested. Eric left the Chiefs right away to help his family through the crisis, and he returned to camp last week ahead of a preseason…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (236+ words) Aug 18, 2026 - 6:24pm Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, a 25-year-old Colombian national, was shot and killed by an ICE agent in a car near his Biddeford home on July 13. Rep. Chellie Pingree said during a hearing in Maine on Monday that ICE’s intended…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (1082+ words) Aug 17, 2026 - 9:04pm The multimillion-dollar, 158,000-square-foot addition to Douglas County’s Judicial and Law Enforcement Center is coming to life as court offices have steadily migrated from the older part of the building in recent weeks. People who have courtroom business will notice…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (696+ words) Aug 17, 2026 - 2:17pm Judge James McCabria is pictured on Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025. A Douglas County judge on Monday granted a Lawrence transgender woman the temporary restoration of her driver’s license after the State of Kansas invalidated it earlier this year under a controversial…...

4+ week, 7+ hour ago   (577+ words) Aug 15, 2026 - 5:56pm Police investigate the scene of a shooting on the campus of Virginia State University on Saturday, Aug. 15, 2026 in Petersburg, Va. (WWBT via AP) Five people were wounded in a shooting involving multiple suspects at Virginia State University early Saturday,…...