LJWorld.com Headlines for May 17, 2020

ang="en" xml:lang="en" xmlns=" xmlns:cctd="> [Where are the reports? Lawrence police, Douglas County Sheriff’s Office explain the absence of documents about their performance]( As the amount of public money pumped into the community’s two largest law enforcement agencies grows, the amount of readily available information about their performance has greatly shrunk, a review by the Journal-World has found. The Douglas ... [Where are the reports? Lawrence police, Douglas County Sheriff’s Office explain the absence of documents about their performance]( By: Mackenzie Clark As the amount of public money pumped into the community’s two largest law enforcement agencies grows, the amount of readily available information about their performance has greatly shrunk, a review by the Journal-World has found. The Douglas ... May 17, 2020 @ 12:00am [KU’s financial situation remains mostly a mystery as COVID-19 threatens to upend higher education]( By: Conner Mitchell The entirety of the financial impact brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic — which has caused unprecedented job losses and brought the global economy to a screeching halt — might not be known for years. Still, higher education institutions ... May 17, 2020 @ 12:00am [Optimism, empathy the 'sunshine' of Trevor Arellano, the Journal-World's 2020 Academic All-Star]( By: Dylan Lysen When Trevor Arellano was a junior at Lawrence High School, he stumbled onto a career path he was excited to explore during his college years and possibly turn into his profession afterward. Little did he know that the profession — public ... May 17, 2020 @ 12:00am [Meet the 2020 Academic All-Star finalists]( By: Staff report Every year since 1997, the Journal-World has invited administrators and counselors from public and private high schools in the Lawrence area to nominate their most outstanding seniors for the Journal-World’s Academic All-Star team. As in ... May 16, 2020 @ 11:59pm [Where are they now? Checking in with the 2010 Academic All-Stars]( By: Dylan Lysen Each year, the Journal-World reaches out to the Academic All-Stars from 10 years ago to see what they’ve been up to since high school. Here’s what the members of the 2010 class told us via email: Each year, the Journal-World reaches out to ... May 16, 2020 @ 11:59pm [Jayhawk Area Agency on Aging makes home-delivered meals available to more seniors during pandemic]( By: Elvyn Jones The Jayhawk Area Agency on Aging is making weekday meals available to Douglas County seniors during the COVID-19 pandemic, despite closing the congregate meals sites it reestablished last October. Susan Harris, Jayhawk AAA executive director, ... May 16, 2020 @ 4:25pm [Motorcyclist struck by car, taken to hospital]( By: Elvyn Jones A motorcyclist was transported to Lawrence's hospital after being hit by a car Saturday morning on West Sixth Street. Lawrence Police Department Sgt. Mike Cobb said the car struck the motorcyclist from behind shortly before 11 a.m. near the ... May 16, 2020 @ 3:05pm [Police investigating after shots fired at Lawrence house overnight]( By: Staff Report Lawrence police are investigating after a fight at a gathering escalated into gunfire overnight. Officers responded to a report of numerous shots fired at a house in the 1300 block of Tennessee Street shortly after 2:30 a.m. Saturday, Lawrence ... May 16, 2020 @ 10:38am You are receiving this email because of your relationship with the Lawrence Journal-World or because at some point in the past you shared your email address with us. If you no longer want to receive emails from us, follow instructions at the link below. [Click here to unsubscribe and manage your email subscriptions.]( Lawrence Journal-World P.O Box 888, Lawrence, Kansas 66044