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Crime, Fire, Courts

Lawrence crime

Two men shot multiple times early this morning in Lawrence
May 19, 2013
Lawrence Police are investigating after two men were shot just before 4 a.m. Sunday in Lawrence. The first 911 caller reported hearing 4-5 gunshots, followed by a female’s scream and an unknown vehicle fleeing the area of 22nd Street and Alabama. A second caller reported the shots to be closer to Greever Terrace and Louisiana Street.
Burgers, bratwurst, gifts and good times: friends tell of homicide victims’ last days
May 19, 2013
The four victims of the homicides discovered last week in Ottawa, and the friend accused of murdering them, were all together for a barbecue not long before the killings. They ate hamburgers, played with their hosts’ children, and left happy, as far as anyone could see. Friends couldn’t see any sign of trouble, though they knew of Kyle Flack’s history of violence. By Ian Cummings
KU student arrested after fight sends Lawrence man to trauma center
May 17, 2013
A 21-year-old Kansas University student was arrested on suspicion of aggravated battery about 1 a.m. Friday after a fight at a local bar sent a Lawrence man to a Kansas City-area trauma center. Ian Cummings

Lawrence fires

Trailers catch fire in North Lawrence
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
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
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

Lawrence High grad Srinivasan nears confimation to federal appeals court in D.C.
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
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.
LHS grad sails through judicial hearing
April 11, 2013
President Barack Obama’s nominee to a federal appeals court faced no outright opposition from Republican senators during a Senate hearing on Wednesday. Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, pledged his endorsement to Sri Srinivasan, and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, also was supportive.