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PHOTO GALLERY: Crosstown Showdown Varsity Football

Charlie Last, Miles Beaty, and Baila Love • October 31, 2025

BREAKING NEWS: Fire at Lawrence High School

Arianna Waller and Kyla Meikle • September 30, 2025

Editor's note: This is a developing story. Updates to come. On Sept. 29, at around 11 a.m., Lawrence High School students and staff were evacuated after a fire broke out. The fire originated in the girls...

PHOTO GALLERY: Free State vs. LHS Basketball Game

Addison Driscoll and Ember Klein • February 26, 2022

Update: boys' basketball won 59-47 girls' basketball lost 20-59 With the all-time record being even, the stakes are up for this year’s basketball City Showdown. Twenty-one wins for both teams,...

Photo Gallery: LHS vs. FSHS Boys Basketball

Elana Ho, Photographer • February 25, 2020

Photo Gallery: Student Council Dodgeball Tournament

Isabel Janssen, Photographer • February 4, 2020

Photo Gallery: FS vs. LHS Dodgeball Tournament

Sabrina Castle, Madison Goeser, Photographers • February 11, 2019

Basketball Pep Rally

Sabrina Castle, Editor-in-Chief • February 4, 2019

Photo Gallery: Soccer City Showdown

Rylee Roberts, Photo Editor • October 2, 2017

Physicality defines rivalry soccer game against LHS

Evan Cornell, Designer • October 1, 2017

The boys soccer team had high hopes going into the crosstown rivalry game against Lawrence High. They quickly went up 1-0 with a goal from Charlie Newsome, who had trouble describing the feeling it gave...

Free State, LHS Editors in Chief discuss joint newspaper issue

Kyra Haas and Zia Kelly • January 30, 2015

On a sticky July afternoon at the Media Now Journalism camp in St. Louis, we sat across the lunch table from our publication advisers, ate mediocre pasta and talked about newspaper. Out of that conversation...

Free State Reacts: LHS Vandalism

Maria Carrasco and Catherine Prestoy • October 2, 2014

Board of education addresses recent high school vandalism

Kenneth Palmer, Reporter • September 23, 2014

On Monday, Sept. 22, the Lawrence Public Schools’ Board of Education commented on the racially-inspired vandalism that occurred as a result of the rivalry between Lawrence Free State High School and...