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Story updated at 4:53 p.m. Friday, July 7: Lawrence city commissioners next week will begin considering a $471 million budget for 2024 that would add
Lawrence police respond to three overdose calls Monday night, including one fatal case... an Amber Alert was canceled for four children taken from a Topeka home... and the Kansas Supreme Court won't rule on the merits of a lawsuit over industrial hog farms, at least for now. Those headlines and more... here.
Dignitaries gather in Manhattan for a ribbon cutting ceremony at a federal bio-security lab... four Kansas City area men have been indicted for illegally trafficking firearms... Kansas City's mayor appoints a committee to study reparations for Black residents... and a Missouri mom gets more than 50 years in prison for leaving her two children to die in a hot car. Those headlines and more... here.
A piece of the Keystone oil pipeline that burst last December in Washington County had warped, and TC Energy was aware of that some ten years ago...the Lawrence School Board has finalized the sale of a former alternative high school building on the city’s southwest side....and the names of the victims of a nightclub shooting in Kansas City have been released as the investigation continues. Details on these stories, and more, are available here.
Some of the local sites offering free summer meals for kids will soon wind down for the year, but one more is now available two days a week through Saturday, Aug. 13.