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Douglas County Commission selects interim county administrator for permanent role
The Douglas County Commission will forgo a search to fill its vacant county administrator position and will instead appoint interim County Administrator Sarah Plinsky to the permanent position. At their meeting Wednesday, commissioners unanimously approved directing the county counselor to ...
Douglas County Commission approves six-month halt on applications to subdivide rural land
Rural residents of Douglas County who want to divide their land into residential lots may have to wait half a year before they can get that process started. The Douglas County Commission on Wednesday unanimously approved a six-month moratorium on the county’s processing of applications for ...
Judge: Johnson County detective violated Lawrence man’s Miranda rights after alleged police shooting, standoff
A judge on Wednesday sided with a Lawrence defense attorney who claimed his client’s rights were violated and that his statements to detectives should not be used at trial. Douglas County District Court Judge James McCabria granted Hatem Chahine’s motion to suppress any statements that ...
Suspect in Islamic Center of Lawrence burglary might be tied to similar Wichita crime
Lawrence police think there's a chance their suspect in an Aug. 13 burglary at the Islamic Center of Lawrence could be the same man suspected in a similar alleged incident about 160 miles away. On Tuesday, Lawrence police put out a request for the public’s help to identify a man who they ...
KU researcher indicted for fraud for failing to disclose conflict with Chinese university
Story updated at 5:13 p.m. Wednesday A researcher at the University of Kansas was indicted Wednesday on federal charges of hiding the fact that he was working full time for a Chinese university while doing research at KU funded by the U.S. government. The Lawrence researcher, Feng ...
Construction of $18.5M police headquarters to begin soon; city leaders to consider adding $1.3M to expand project
Construction on the city’s new $18.5 million police headquarters will begin next month, though the project could still add more than $1 million to its budget if city leaders decide to expand it. As currently proposed, the first phase of the police headquarters project will allow the police ...
Lawrence man arrested, charged after reportedly pointing gun in road rage incident
Story updated at 5:42 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 21: A Lawrence man was arrested Tuesday evening after reportedly pointing a gun at a motorist on Sixth Street earlier the same day, and he now faces two felony charges. “The alleged victim indicated that a male subject pointed a handgun in their ...
Teen sentenced to probation for bringing gun to Lawrence High School
A teen boy convicted of bringing a gun to Lawrence High School was sentenced Wednesday to nine months of probation. The charges stem from an incident on Feb. 6, when the boy reportedly threw his school-issued laptop at a door, breaking the window in the door, the Journal-World reported. The ...
Lawrence police blotter for August 21
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours. Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Tuesday to 6 a.m. Wednesday and includes 248 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
Latest renovations complete at McDonald’s, but one more planned; grocer to launch new Lawrence service
I am a ball of sunshine every morning, but I know of people who speak only in the language best described as daybreak grunt. It can create quite an ordeal at the McDonald’s counter if the poor soul taking the order doesn’t know that mggmffn, MGGMFFN! means my beloved would like a McMuffin, ...
Lawrence woman dies after truck hits her moped
A woman died Tuesday night in southeast Lawrence after a truck hit the moped she was riding, police said. The woman, a 24-year-old Lawrence resident, was riding her moped in the 2700 block of Haskell Avenue when a pickup truck hit her, police said in a news release Wednesday morning. The woman ...
New Lawrence resident planning kayaking trip around Crete to raise money for children’s charity
Within days of moving to Lawrence, Bob Danon is heading off on a 300-mile sea kayaking trip along the jagged coast of Crete. At 74, Danon will be kayaking alone, about seven or eight hours a day. This will be his seventh sea kayaking trip to Crete and his third solo trip to raise dollars for ...
Lawrence City Commission gives initial approval to new comprehensive plan, including controversial new growth policy
City leaders gave initial approval Tuesday to a new growth plan that would prioritize infill development and add requirements for developers who want to expand the city’s boundaries. As part of its regular meeting, the Lawrence City Commission voted unanimously in favor of the new ...
Defendant in Lawrence murder case pushes to delay next hearing
A Lawrence man charged with first-degree murder and vehicular homicide now wants to delay his next court appearance, after last week raising concerns about how slowly the case was moving. Steven A. Drake III, 22, objected to his last defense attorney’s Aug. 12 motion to withdraw from his ...
Lawrence woman charged in connection with alleged stabbing at 11th and Tennessee streets
Story updated at 5:18 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 21: A Lawrence woman has been charged in connection with a reported stabbing that left another woman with serious but not life-threatening injuries. Stephanie Kay Bryant Henderson, 34, was charged Monday in Douglas County District Court with one ...
Lawrence registered sex offender sentenced to 10 years for child porn
A registered sex offender from Lawrence was sentenced to a decade in federal prison for possession of child pornography, according to a news release from the U.S. District Court in Kansas. Benjamin Grace, 32, was identified in an FBI investigation of an internet service involved in the ...
Douglas County Commission to discuss filling county administrator position; may create moratorium on rural subdivisions
Douglas County commissioners on Wednesday will continue discussing their plans for hiring a new county administrator, but it's not yet clear what those plans are. The commission did not provide any background information on the subject in its meeting agenda, even though a majority of the ...
Attorney: Miranda rights of Lawrence man accused in police shooting, standoff were violated
A defense attorney is hoping to block his client’s potentially incriminating statements to law enforcement from being used in court, alleging that his Miranda rights were violated. Abdul Jalil K. Hussein, 35, of Lawrence, is charged in connection with multiple incidents: allegedly firing a ...
Burglary reported at Islamic Center of Lawrence; police seek help identifying suspect
Lawrence police are seeking the public’s help investigating a burglary last week at the Islamic Center of Lawrence, 1917 Naismith Drive. The burglary occurred around 3:45 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 13, according to a news release from department spokesman Patrick Compton. The suspect is a heavyset ...