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Lawrence crime

Shooting reported Tuesday night during road-rage incident; police looking for driver
By Ian Cummings
June 19, 2013
Police are looking for a man who allegedly fired a handgun while involved in a road-rage incident in south Lawrence Tuesday night, said Sgt. Trent McKinley, a Lawrence Police Department spokesman.
Illinois man sentenced to 30 months in prison in case where children were bound and blindfolded in parking lot
By Ian Cummings
June 19, 2013
A 53-year-old Northlake, Ill., man has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for five crimes in an incident last June in which two of his children were found bound by their hands and feet in a Lawrence Walmart parking lot. Without sleep for nine days and suffering from mental illness, he had become delusional and feared his children were possessed by demons, according to the man’s court-appointed attorney. By Ian Cummings
Former KU student sentenced to 30 days in jail, barred from social media, for attacking female student
By Ian Cummings
June 18, 2013
A 21-year-old former Kansas University student was sentenced Tuesday to 30 days in jail and barred from using social media for a period of 18 months after being found guilty of attacking a local female college student in January. By Ian Cummings

Lawrence fires

Trailers catch fire in North Lawrence
By Adam Strunk
April 6, 2013
Fire crews and police responded to a structure fire in North Lawrence around 6 p.m. Saturday in a lot behind the Slow Ride Roadhouse, 350 N. Third St. Crews arrived to find thick, black smoke and 15-foot flames shooting from an empty trailer home.
House fire causes traffic detour near 27th and Louisiana
By Ian Cummings
March 29, 2013
Fire crews and police responded to a fire about 10:30 a.m. Friday in the 500 block of Park Hill Terrace, just north of Broken Arrow School.
No injuries reported in Connecticut Street fire
By Ian Cummings
10:21 a.m., March 29, 2013 Updated 02:26 p.m.
Fire crews and police responded to a fire about 8:30 a.m. Friday at a house in the 1200 block of Connecticut Street, where smoke was seen pouring out of windows on the second and third floors.

Lawrence courts

Former Lawrence resident Sri Srinivasan confirmed for prestigious D.C. Court of Appeals
Associated Press
May 23, 2013
After five years of trying, President Barack Obama has placed his first nominee on a key appeals court.
Lawrence High grad Srinivasan nears confimation to federal appeals court in D.C.
By Scott Rothschild
May 16, 2013
Lawrence High School graduate Sri Srinivasan won unanimous approval Thursday from the Senate Judiciary Committee to serve on the powerful federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. By Scott Rothschild
Court won’t shorten sentence of felon in KU tickets case
By Roxana Hegeman, Associated Press
April 12, 2013
A federal judge refused Friday to shorten the sentence of a former Kansas University athletics consultant caught up in a $2 million ticket scalping conspiracy, rejecting defense claims that Thomas Blubaugh’s former attorney did a poor job representing him.
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