Updated at 5:35 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 20 A Douglas County jury on Thursday acquitted a defendant who claimed that he had pulled a handgun at a gas station last year in self-defense because he feared that another store patron was going to kill him. The jury of six men and six women listened to ...
Now arriving at Gate 1 of the Lawrence Regional Airport: A big development debate, and baggage from 2007. Lawrence-Douglas County planning commissioners on Monday will consider a request by the KU Endowment Association to annex nearly 140 acres next to the Lawrence Regional Airport for future ...
Lawrence will be getting $400,000 through a state road improvement program for a future project on south Iowa Street, Gov. Laura Kelly's office said this week. Kelly's office announced the funding on Tuesday, and city spokesman Michael Leos confirmed on Thursday that it would be used to help ...
The Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department was called to the 2200 block of Lafayette Avenue before 9 a.m. Saturday “regarding aggressive dogs fighting,” according to a statement from the department. But when officers contacted the owner, 57-year-old Erika Goodwin, at the scene, a larger, ...
TOPEKA — Ahead of President Donald Trump’s temporary pause on 50% tariffs on Canada, Kansas Republican U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran urged the administration to “consider the consequences” of tariffs on Canadian salt imports, which are a crucial resource for winter road safety. Moran said ...
A witness told a Douglas County jury that his simple failure to return a stranger's nod at a gas station led to the stranger angrily pulling a gun on him, but a defense attorney told jurors that the armed man was clearly acting in self-defense and that it was the unarmed man who should be on ...
