- $12 million settlement reached in lawsuit over deadly 2005 Boardwalk Apartment fire
- May 18, 2009
- The owners of the Boardwalk Apartments are urging tenants to abandon their apartments for safety reasons, just days after agreeing to a $12 million settlement with victims of a deadly 2005 fire at the complex.
Video: Boardwalk Apartment renovation plans move forward
There's new life tonight for a Lawrence apartment complex devastated by fire three years ago. Watch »
Video: Another lawsuit filed against Boardwalk Apartments
They were either injured or displaced by the Boardwalk Apartment fire - and now more victims come forward claiming the apartment complex is a fire-trap. Watch »
Video: Boardwalk fire victims receive largest compensation
It was one of the worst fires in Lawrence history - now the Boardwalk fire has set a record for the most money the state has compensated victims for a single crime. Watch »
Video: Police interview of Jason Rose
Video shown to jurors of the interrogation of Jason Allen Rose after the Boardwalk Fire in 2005. Watch »
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6News video: Early morning report on the fire at Boardwalk Apartments, 524 Fireside Drive. Watch »
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- Boardwalk Apartment owners say insurance company still owes $1M in wake of deadly 2005 fire
- January 4, 2012
- The owners of the former Boardwalk Apartments say their insurance company should have paid an additional $1 million in claims after a deadly 2005 fire destroyed a building at the west Lawrence complex.
- Group at KU agrees to review case of Lawrence man convicted in deadly fire at Boardwalk Apartments
- September 6, 2011
- The Project for Innocence and Post-Conviction Remedies at the Kansas University School of Law plans to review the case against the Lawrence man convicted of the deadly Boardwalk Apartment fire.
- Boardwalk Apartments survivor forced to evacuate again after Wednesday morning duplex fire
- April 21, 2011
- Five and a half years ago, Sandara K. Meyer left her home in her nightgown and slippers in the middle of the night. Her husband broke his shoulder in three places from a fall while leaving the apartment. Early Wednesday morning, Meyer was forced to leave her new home for the same reason: a fire.
- Years after Jason Rose’s conviction, Boardwalk arson report still not public; DA says case not closed
- 02:38 p.m., January 5, 2011 Updated 04:12 p.m.
- More than five years after the Boardwalk Apartments fire, key evidence used in the criminal case against Jason Rose has still not been released to the public.
- Reminders linger half a decade following fire
- October 7, 2010
- Today, the 500 block of Fireside Drive in northwest Lawrence is a construction site, where workers are building the shell of what eventually will be an apartment complex. Five years ago today, the property was the site of one of the worst fires in Lawrence history. In a matter of minutes a blaze tore through the Boardwalk Apartments complex, killing three people and injuring 20 others.
- Timeline of the Boardwalk Apartment fire
- October 7, 2010
- Memories of man at center of Boardwalk blaze vary
- October 7, 2010
- In annual crime statistics compiled by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, he’s categorized as a triple murderer. To those who knew him, he’s a kind — but intellectually challenged — young man railroaded by the criminal justice system. In the Lawrence community, he’s the arsonist responsible for one of the worst local tragedies in recent memory. And for one of the victims of the Boardwalk Apartment fire, Jason Allen Rose is a hero.
- Owners begin to tear down Boardwalk Apartments, make way for new complex
- One building was site of deadly 2005 fire
- March 25, 2010
- The end has come for a northwest Lawrence apartment complex that was the scene of a deadly 2005 fire.
- Developers propose redesigned Boardwalk Apartments
- November 22, 2009
- Four years after a deadly fire destroyed portions of the Boardwalk Apartments, a plan has emerged to rebuild the entire northwest Lawrence complex.
- In wake of settlement, Boardwalk Apartment owners asking tenants to leave quickly
- Lawyer offers little information on why tenants asked to leave
- May 19, 2009
- The owners of Boardwalk Apartments are asking all tenants to quickly leave their apartment complex, so they can do “something different” with it, an attorney said Tuesday.
- Boardwalk Apartment renovation plans move forward
- July 16, 2008
- There’s new life tonight for a Lawrence apartment complex devastated by fire three years ago.
- Boardwalk Apartments rebuilding advances
- July 16, 2008
- Plans are moving forward to rebuild the Boardwalk Apartments after a 2005 fire destroyed 76 units and claimed three lives.
- Scholarship honors Boardwalk victim
- History majors with good, not great, grades eligible for Bingham award
- November 28, 2007
- Nancy Bingham wants to preserve the memory of her daughter, Nicole, by awarding scholarships to students with her daughter’s passion for learning. Nicole Bingham was one of three people who died in the October 2005 fire at Boardwalk Apartments. Now, two years later, details have been finalized on the Nicole Bingham Memorial Scholarship, which will be awarded to Kansas University history majors who have no higher than a 3.5 grade-point average.
- 6News video: Mother founds ‘Nicole Bingham Memorial Scholarship’
- November 27, 2007
- The mother of one of the victims from the Boardwalk Apartment Fire in October 2005 looks to preserve her daughter’s memory.
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