A 55-year-old man was sentenced Tuesday to 16 months in prison for violently threatening a downtown Lawrence restaurant worker. Judge Amy Hanley pronounced the sentence after hearing a brief statement ...

Interim CEO of the Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center Kirsten Watkins has been appointed to the permanent role, according to a release from the organization on Tuesday. Watkins has been serving ...

A victory for Kansas men’s basketball on any given Big Monday at Allen Fieldhouse under head coach Bill Self has been a certainty over the last 23 seasons, but the result KU produced on this ...

It’s quite common for Kansas coach Bill Self to tell reporters a player needs to be more aggressive to develop into a more consistent part of the Jayhawks’ offense. In the case of Tre White, though, ...

The Houston defense was locking Kansas down, as it has stymied so many teams since the Cougars joined the Big 12, for about ...

TOPEKA — Kansas lawmakers could transform elections with a series of bills that squeeze advance voting timelines, stamp out rare instances of noncitizen voting and tinker with some candidate filing ...

Lawrence school board members at their meeting on Monday approved a construction bid for updates to the district’s middle school theaters. The bid came from BHS Construction Inc. in the amount of $522 ...

Anderson Bateman looked up to the video board following his finals swim in the 100-yard freestyle and celebrated with a quick ...

A 40-year-old man who was welcomed into Douglas County’s new Veterans Treatment Court less than two weeks ago was charged on Monday with three new offenses. Colin Jay Fowler was convicted on Feb. 11 ...

A 44-year-old man was sentenced Monday to three years in prison after pleading guilty to four of the 18 crimes he had originally been charged with. Antonio Paul Jaimez entered a plea deal with the ...

Kansas is set to invalidate about 1,700 driver’s licenses held by transgender residents and roughly as many birth certificates under a new law that goes beyond Republican-imposed restrictions in other ...

A Douglas County judge on Monday ordered a Lawrence man to stand trial on multiple felonies after a pregnant woman testified that he choked her and threatened to kill her and her baby. The defendant, ...