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Haskell Indian Nations University student DeAnn Ridesatthedoor, 37, was found dead Sunday morning.
The grant from the National Science Foundation will be used to build a new engineering center.
Students at KU are rolling up their sleeves to benefit the Community Blood Center.
Federal investigators are using the cryptosporidiosis outbreak in Douglas County as a platform to learn about the spread of the parasite.
Several Jayhawks went in for a workout as the Student Recreation Fitness Center opened Monday.
The cast of Lawrence Community Theatre's season-opening play will resurrect 'Ol Blue Eyes tonight. "My Way," a musical tribute to crooner Frank Sinatra, features a two-man, two-woman cast singing Sinatra's best-loved hits. The play runs for three weekends.
On Missouri street and in tents next to the stadium, it seems that football fever has infected the University of Kansas. The 111-year-old football rivalry between the KU Jayhawks and the University of Missouri Tigers continues Saturday morning, with kick-off at 11:40.
An abstract sculpture is in Watson Park now. The piece was donated by Lawrence artist Ed Ortiz and is called "Emergence."
The nation-wide "Light the Night" walk took place at the South Park gazebo Thursday night. It drew a large crowd to honor those with cancer, and the event was also a fundraiser for the cause.
The Watkins museum will get an exhibit on the underground railroad after leaders of the Douglas County Historical Society accepted a grant from the National Park Service.
Enrollment this fall at the University of Kansas broke a 13-year-old record for the number of students attending the school. The freshman retention rate and number of in-state students are also at record highs this year.
Lawrence city commissioners will decide by the end of this year what group will inhabit the renovated Carnegie Library. A number of proposals, including a cultural center and a children's library, are among those city officials are considering.
Lawrence School Board officials are preparing a proposal for a half-cent city-wide sales tax. State legislators have voiced their disapproval of a county-wide sales tax to assist schools in Douglas County. The Lawrence tax may be on the ballot in November.
City commissioners wrangled over the implementation of a living-wage requirement for businesses receiving tax abatements.
The Douglas County Sheriff's Department has had to use the spike strips 12 to 15 times in the past four years.
Former U.S. Atty. Gen. Janet Reno was questioned about several items during her Kansas Univerity visit, including the April 1993 raid of the Branch Davidian compound and the Patriot Act.
A new report from the U.S. Census Bureau lists Lawrence as third among the nation's cities for percentage of population made of newcomers.
KU students are among those who have helped increase the number of riders on the city's bus system.
City planners will find out Wednesday from a judge whether their proposal to limit the size of the largest building to be built at the northwest corner of Sixth Street and Wakarusa Drive can continue.
The two-day search of the Kansas River for the body of Thomas Portenier Jr., Leavenworth, came to an end Monday.
Douglas County commissioners listened to several recommendations Monday for the easing of traffic on 23rd Street.
The Kansas Endowment Association's fund-raising goal may be met one year earlier than hoped for.
The University of Kansas is opening its doors to the public Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Classrooms and other facilities will be open for parents, prospective students and the community.
Bishop Seabury Academy formally opened in a new facility in Lawrence. The buildings will accomodate expanding programs.
The controversy over setting a minumum "living wage" in Lawrence is continuing as some city officials are still undecided about the issue.
Way too many movies are opening in area theaters this weekend, so here's a rundown of the highlights.
One protestor arrested last summer at a protest outside the Dole Institute of Politics must write a 1,000-word essay and stay out of trouble.
Happy Birthday Lawrence! The town officially turned 149 Thursday. Schools celebrated, appropriately, with cake and history.
The Eldridge Hotel in downtown Lawrence will go through foreclosure proceedings, MidAmerica Bank officials said. The hotel will remain open through the foreclosure.
Three prominent historians spoke tonight about the Brown v. Board of Education decision that desegregated schools. This year is the 50th anniversary of the decision. There is still work to do, they said.
The owner of the Eldridge Hotel confirmed MidAmerica Bank started foreclosure on the landmark, but those proceedings could take three years.
A 23-year-old woman was sexually assaulted early Wednesday morning in the 300 block on West 11th Street. Police are investigating.
Dole Institute of Politics Director Smith told 6News he would announce his plans next week about whether he will leave his current post for the Lincoln Museum and Library in Illinois.
Lawrence Memorial Hospital ranked last in the northeast Kansas area in quality of care to heart attack victims, according to a national study. Hospital administrators said they were not pleased with the report, but said they would investigate ways to improve patient care. Administrators also said patients are receiving very good care.
Lawrence police officials release the audio tape of 911 phone calls from a police chase Aug. 26 that left one Lawrence woman dead.
Free State High School students reacted yesterday to administrator's efforts to curb 'provocative' dancing at school events. Some said the rules are too harsh, but others supported the new rules.
The United Way groups tallied their pre-campaign totals at the kick-off held at the Dole Institute of Politics.
The director at the Dole Institute of Politics may take a new position at the Lincoln Library and Museum in Springfield, Ill., a Chicago Sun-Times columnist reported.
City Commission will wait to vote on the expansion of Lawrence's urban growth area for a joint study session with county commissioners.
Concerns over dance-floor behavior have led to the policy, complete with an example video.
The Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center plans to put together a calendar with a different slant than the Women of KU calendar.
Nam Ouk Cho was ordered by a Douglas County District Court judge to stand trial for the death of a bystander in a high-speed chase.
Liquor store owners await official notification that Sunday business can begin on Sept. 28.
Free State High School administrators say problems with the way students dance at such events as homecoming and prom have prompted them to take some drastic measures.
About 200 volunteers tagged around 1,000 monarch butterflys Saturday at the Baker Wetlands.
Student housing officials are looking at ways to make both residence halls and students' behavior more safe following the death of a freshman last week.
Dr. Gianfranco Pezzino, a state epidemiologist, says that the county alerted the public at the correct time.
The Oliver Hall resident fell from his seventh-story window.
Hundreds of artists and art enthusiasts will be in Lawrence tonight for the opening of the 15th annual Lawrence Indian Arts Show. A benefit reception kicks off the juried exhibition at the Lawrence Arts Center, and the show, which features more than 130 works by American Indian artists across the country, remains on view through Oct. 11.
The city continues its anti-Wal-Mart position.
The flag-raising took place before the naturalization ceremony at the Dole Institute.
The Lawrence Journal-World filed the suit to gain access to the department's records about the deadly pursuit.
At least one local family has discovered that the parasite infection becomes a family affair.
Hemenway says that students, faculty and staff have increased their own contributions to KU, but that the state has continually cut funding.
The Dole Institute of Politics hosted the first naturalization ceremony in Lawrence.
Worshippers at Trinity Episcopal Church participated in prayers for those who lost their lives during the terrorist attacks.
The leaders of the museum have twice said they didn't want the grant.
The students reflected on how the events of September 11, 2001, changed the world and themselves.
The event featured food from about thirty area restaurants.
Three of the four boys who assaulted Josh Graves have now gone to trial.
The water plant will allow the city to expand to the south, but the price tag is steep.
Institute Director Richard Norton Smith sees the ceremony as a new beginning.
Authorities say that it takes more than a couple of cases of the disease to issue a general warning to the public.
The construction and engineering fees have been very low, but will be six times as much next year.
City and county commissioners discuss a half-cent sales tax to get more money for Lawrence schools.
Tanya Shaffer, author of "Somebody's Heart is Burning: A Woman Wanderer in Africa," was asked what she hoped readers would learn about the people of Africa from her book which chronicled her year on the African continent.
Members of Lawrence Aquahawks swim team were notified of a cryptosporidium case a month before the general public was notified.
Author Tom Averill was asked if through the course of his writing he had become good friends with the characters in "The Slow Air of Ewan MacPherson."
Laura Moriarty, author of "The Center of Everything," a below-the-poverty-line coming-of-age story set in 1970's Kansas was asked what impact publishing the novel had had on her life.
Service agencies fear higher natural gas prices and a poor economy will result in a struggle for many to keep warm this winter.
The average class size in Lawrence schools has decreased since 1999.
John Thomas Simmons receives a six-month sentence for assault against two fraternity brothers. Simmons claimed that he was protecting a friend from a hate crime.
About thirty-five high school bands will march with the Marching Jayhawks during halftime.
At the multiplexes this week comes "Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star," a rather merciless satire about the fleeting nature of fame. Comedian David Spade plays Dickie, a cute kid actor from a 1970s TV series still struggling to make the career shift to adulthood. This leads him to hire a surrogate family to help him relive the childhood he never had. The comical casting of dozens of former child stars helps offset the movie's more contrived aspects
Club Eight-One-Five is on the cutting edge of the Lawrence bar scene by offering five minutes of flavored oxygen for five dollars.
The rates may go up nearly 200%.
Lawrence city and Douglas County commissioners will review the possiblity of turning the former fertilizer plant into a business park.
Laura Calwell is the Friends of the Kaw's new interim riverkeeper. She wants to open the river to more recreational use.
The Old Powerhouse building is the oldest of KU's structures.
The president says that his tax cuts will lift the country out of the economic downturn.
The 900 block of Illinois Street is favorite roosting spot for thousands of birds. Residents say that they feel like they're living in an Alfred Hitchcock movie.
The library needs to upgrade and expand, but its directors aren't sure how to find the funding.
The commissioners want more details about the guidelines for future development at the intersection.
The alleged hazing took place at the Sigma Nu fraternity.
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment only conducts the test in the most severe cases.
The two junior high students were left behind when their usual bus was too full for them to find seats.
Officials at the city's utilities started testing the water supply, but the source of the cryptosporidiosis may be difficult to pinpoint.
A day after the pool closed to human swimmers for the summer, dogs were allowed into the water for one last splash.
The Lawrence City Commission did not set a procedure Tuesday to determine the next occupant of the former Carnegie Library at Ninth and Vermont streets. Commissioners decided to have a study session first. The study session will be Sept. 24.
The bodies of flood victims Melissa Rogers and Al Larsen were discovered Tuesday morning. Lawrence resident Ryan Lane believes Larson was the man helping Lane assist people on the turnpike Saturday night.
Organic Style magazine rated Lawrence 30th out of 125 cities in its ranking of least-polluted "healthy cities" nationwide.
"Chip Off the Old Hawk," one of the Jayhawks on Parade around Lawrence this summer, is being auctioned off on eBay to benefit United Way of Douglas County.
About 50 supporters of the living-wage proposal gathered in South Park for Labor Day.
A training center in Hutchinson will train new hires for the city.
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