Christine Metz

Kansas cities part of class action lawsuit against atrazine manufacturers

Earlier this week, the Huffington Post reported on a class action lawsuit that was filed against the largest manufacturer of the herbicide atrazine.

KU Cancer Center gets $700K to recruit top-notch researcher

Kansas University has received $700,000 from the Kansas Bioscience Authority to support the school’s effort to recruit top-notch researchers to the KU Cancer Center.

Fighting for Social Security benefits: Resident finds long, hard road to getting disability claim approved

For three years, four months and 11 days, Debra Shirar waited for the Social Security Administration to say yes to her disability claim.

18-yr-old Lawrence girl begins motherhood journey

Having a baby is life-changing at any age. But for an 18-year-old high school dropout, the arrival of a child can be overwhelming. For four months, reporter Christine Metz and photographer Nick Krug followed Katie Schimmel as she journeyed into motherhood.

On a mission to help Haiti

Nurse sees courage in ravaged country

With only a garden shovel, a man attempted to dig through a giant pile of concrete rubble as the Caribbean sun lowered behind him. For Lawrence Memorial Hospital nurse Karin Feltman, the magnitude of that man’s task was echoed in the kaleidoscope of images she saw throughout Haiti.

Nation’s diabetes epidemic has serious consequences for Kansas

Kansans: Getting bigger than you think.

Postgraduate economics: Young workers, many fresh out of college, among hardest hit by recession, unemployment

Unemployed since August, 26-year-old Tyler Harnett continues to see life in a glass-half-full kind of way. To be exact, the glass is half full of a dark, chocolate porter.