January 2022

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The University of Kansas suspended two fraternities for hazing earlier this month, but officials don’t plan to share their investigation with police. Phi Gamma Delta and Phi Delta Theta were both suspended from campus for five years because of the incidents university officials found, which included assaults, sleep deprivation, forced workouts, destruction of pledges’ property and retaliation for reporting the behavior to university officials. “Students always remain free to pursue criminal charges, and if they would seek to do so, we would provide appropriate assistance,” KU spokeswoman Er- inn Barcomb-Peterson told the Lawrence Journal-World. “However, we will not take control away from a victim by triggering a criminal investigation the victim does not want.”

A 24-year-old man has been arrested in connection to a shooting that occurred outside a Lawrence bar on New Years Day, the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office announced Friday. According to DCSO, the US Marshals Service notified deputies that they had apprehended Daequan Rayton of Lawrence in Topeka.

An Ottawa woman is in custody after allegedly threatening a man with a machete Sunday afternoon, OPD says. According to OPD, officers were dispatched to the 800 block of S.

I like machines. Occasionally, usually on the couch, I envision an idyllic future, like the one in The Jetsons, where a robot rolls over to me with a martini. In the timeless classic by Flight of the Concords, the song Robots, set in “the distant future, the year 2000”, it is Man vs. Robot. The song is so good I’m rooting for the robots! And who could forget Short Circuit, the 1986 film starring Steve Guttenberg alongside a delightful robot, Number 5? The picture also gave us the hit single Who’s Johnny, by El Debarge. Okay, fine. Most people forgot that film but I did not! #neverforget! So I’ve certainly never

The Ottawa Police Department is now accepting applications for its newest role, the Crisis Co-Responder. The position’s creation was made possible by a $150,798 grant OPD received in October 2021 to create a Community Policing Officer and a Crisis Co-Responder role.

When the holidays are over and spring seems eons away, it’s not uncommon for people to feel a little down. But for an estimate five percent of Americans, this melancholy can cause major disruptions in their life and can even lead to dangerous thoughts.