City budget proposal would raise property tax rate
Lawrence city manager Craig Owens proposes a 2025 budget totaling 520.8 million across funds and a 3.5 mill property tax rise. The plan includes cuts in fire medical and parks and recreation as revenue shortfalls from slower sales tax growth reduce anticipated funds.
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Kansas Supreme Court strikes down two abortion laws
Kansas Supreme Court justices invalidated a ban on a common second trimester procedure and stricter provider rules, reinforcing that the state constitution protects abortion access. The ruling sparks debate over potential challenges to other decades-old limits, while critics warn of a regime of broad access.
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Topeka
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Nancy Northup
Center For Reproductive Rights
Woman pleads in boyfriend fentanyl death case
Lawrence woman Chloe Lyn Colby 23 agreed to prison time in a plea deal over a fentanyl overdose death. She was charged with distribution of a controlled substance causing death for allegedly supplying counterfeit oxycodone to her boyfriend Kendall Royce Stiffler 21 on April 17 2021.
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Chloe Lyn Colby
Kendall Royce Stiffler
Former reporter settles part of suit over raid on paper
Deb Gruver, former Marion County Record reporter, agrees to a $235,000 settlement in part of her federal lawsuit about a police raid on the newspaper that sparked a national debate on press freedoms. The deal removes former Marion police chief from the suit but leaves claims against the county sheriff and prosecutor intact.
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Kansas
Marion
Marion County Record
Deb Gruver
Quonset Hut Could Become Terrapin Center in East Lawrence
East Lawrence developer Tony Krsnich aims to tear down downtown buildings but Chad Lawhorn of the Warehouse Arts District seeks to preserve the 1950s Quonset hut at 620 E Eighth St. The rendering shows the hut rehabilitated as part of a proposed 3.6 million Terrapin redevelopment project adjacent to the district.
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