Lawrence

• Lawrence Coalition for Safe Streets is urging Lawrence officials to fund a safety study and redesign of Tennessee and Kentucky streets. →
• A Lawrence pharmacist expects a new Kansas transparency law regulating pharmacy benefit managers to save the state millions of dollars. →
• The Kansas Athletics board of directors approved a fiscal year 2027 budget projecting a $13.2 million deficit in Lawrence. →
• Former KU guard Melvin Council Jr. dismissed his NCAA eligibility lawsuit in Douglas County District Court, planning to refile in New York. →
• Expect plenty of sunshine and sizzling heat across Lawrence today with light south winds and a high of 100°F.

🌾 Kansas

• Barber County commissioners voted 2-0 Monday to approve an agreement for Google's first Kansas data center, a roughly 1.7-million-square-foot campus near Sharon. →

• McPherson County commissioners voted 3-0 Monday to ban data centers and utility-scale battery-storage facilities on county land outside city limits. →

• Sedgwick County commissioners are set to consider this week whether to extend the county's pause on large-scale data center applications for a third time, through Dec. 24. →

• Lawrence police arrested Keisonn Smith Jr., 25, of Topeka, Sunday in connection with the fatal stabbing of McMillin Tutu, 20, of Kansas City, Missouri, near Seventh and Massachusetts streets. →

• Wichita recorded just three-quarters of an inch of rain in July and August, its driest such stretch since the Dust Bowl in 1936, as Salina hit a record 107 degrees and the region's crops suffered widespread poor ratings. →

🇺🇸 US

• Global government bond yields climbed to their highest level since mid-2008 as rising oil prices reignited inflation fears and expectations of further interest-rate hikes. →

• The California Assembly voted 74-0 to send Gov. Gavin Newsom a bill banning children under 16 from opening accounts on social media platforms with addictive features. →

• The Supreme Court voted 5-4 to lift lower-court orders and allow construction on a new White House ballroom to resume while litigation continues. →

• John Ternus became Apple's CEO on Sept. 1, succeeding Tim Cook, who moves into the role of executive chairman. →

• A Las Vegas jury convicted Duane "Keffe D" Davis of first-degree murder in the 1996 killing of rapper Tupac Shakur. →

Weather

SEPTEMBER 1, 1985: WRECK OF THE TITANIC FOUND

Seventy-three years after the ocean liner sank in the North Atlantic, a joint U.S.-French expedition located the Titanic’s wreck about 400 miles east of Newfoundland. Using the experimental unmanned submersible Argo, the team spotted debris and one of the ship’s massive boilers nearly 13,000 feet below the surface, leading to the discovery of the broken but remarkably preserved hull.

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