Three women were injured when the vehicle they were riding in crashed and rolled onto its top late Saturday night in Downtown Lawrence. Lawrence Police and Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical crews were called to the intersection of 13th Street and Massachusetts Street, just before midnight, ...
In October 1981, a then-25-year-old woman sat in a public courtroom and described being raped and repeatedly sodomized by a stranger, who held her by the hair or with a knife to her throat throughout the ordeal. He’d attacked her as she was jogging on the University of Kansas campus, and ...
A woman’s report that a friend sexually assaulted her in a bar bathroom and then at Clinton Lake later the same night led to rape and other charges against the man, according to a law enforcement affidavit. After requesting it from Douglas County District Court, the Journal-World on Friday ...
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. Thursday to 6 a.m. Friday and includes 214 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
Updated at 2:42 p.m. Friday Though a man initially reported that someone else stabbed him Friday morning in Lawrence, police now say that's not true. “Initially the subject indicated that there was a suspect involved, but police later determined that was not the case,” Sgt. Amy Rhoads of ...
Days after her accomplice was ordered to life in prison — for premeditated murder and other convictions based on what the judge called “overwhelming” evidence — Christina L. Towell decided to take a plea deal. Towell, 38, of Leavenworth, pleaded no contest and was convicted of ...
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. Wednesday to 6 a.m. Thursday and includes 158 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
Story updated at 8:52 p.m. Wednesday, March 20, 2019: Both sides agreed in court Wednesday that evidence showed a Lawrence police officer was negligent when she accidentally shot a man using her gun instead of her Taser as intended. But did the officer’s mistake rise to the level of ...
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 184 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
Topeka – An Ottawa man pleaded guilty Tuesday to a federal charge that he drove to Missouri to meet someone he believed was a mother who was willing to sell her 10-year-old daughter for sex, according to a news release Wednesday from U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister. The man, Michael David ...
Lawrence police are investigating an armed robbery reported in the city’s Oread Neighborhood, just east of the University of Kansas campus. About 10:40 p.m. Monday, police were dispatched to a reported armed robbery in the 1300 block of Kentucky Street, Officer Derrick Smith said in an ...
Everyone in the courtroom agreed: The recent unlocking of a homicide victim’s phone adds critical evidence to the trial of her accused murderer. However, the unlocking came too recently for lawyers to process evidence in time to get 22-year-old Rontarus Washington Jr. to trial on Monday as ...
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. Monday to 6 a.m. Tuesday and includes 201 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
Updated at 3:35 p.m. Tuesday For the extensively premeditated and violently executed murder of her ex-boyfriend, Tria L. Evans should be locked away for the rest of her life, prosecutors told a judge Tuesday. “This woman does not deserve to see the light of day,” Amy McGowan said. And ...
The woman who was struck and run over by an entry in the Lawrence St. Patrick’s Day Parade was an onlooker who ran up to the float, police said. The woman reportedly crossed a chalk line, drawn to keep people safely away from the vehicles, that parade organizers say their volunteers do ...
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. Sunday to 6 a.m. Monday and includes 201 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
As part of special patrols last weekend and the weekend before, Lawrence police arrested seven people on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. During the first DUI saturation patrol on March 8, officers administered field sobriety tests to eight drivers and four of them ...
Updated story, additional details - Lawrence paradegoer ran up to float before tripping, being run over, police say Story updated at 9:19 a.m. Monday A person on foot was injured Sunday during the Lawrence St. Patrick's Day Parade, police said. Around 2 p.m. Sunday, emergency responders ...
As part of efforts to pare down the numbers of people in the Douglas County Jail in recent years, the county has launched a few new programs. One of them has grown by 67 percent in just a year. Douglas County’s pretrial release, house arrest and behavioral health court are three of the key ...
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. Saturday to 6 a.m. Sunday and includes 222 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...