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 133 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
It seems there’s always some new scam going around or some old scam resurfacing. In recent days local law enforcement authorities have shared information about two such scams. In one case, victims reported to University of Kansas police last week that they’d been scammed out of $1,000 — ...
Years of multiagency investigation into fraud by others in his banking circles ultimately produced the federal indictment against Lawrence businessman Troy A. Gregory, documents filed in the case reveal. Gregory, facing criminal charges for his role in an alleged $15 million bank loan scheme ...
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 ...
Firefighters responded to two minor residential fires in Lawrence on Friday evening and Saturday morning. At about 9:15 p.m. Friday, fire crews and paramedics were called to a reported structure fire at 2700 Stratford Road, according to a news release from city spokesman Porter Arneill. ...
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. Friday to 6 a.m. Saturday and includes 179 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
A Lawrence mother claimed the engine was running and the heat was on when she left her young children in the backseat of her car to hang out at a bar for a couple of hours during the recent polar vortex. But Lawrence police said the part of her story about leaving the heat on didn’t add up, ...
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 189 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
Two Lawrence men were arrested this week on suspicion of kidnapping and other crimes, including allegedly assaulting a man with a hammer and a torch last fall. Jason V. Spaniol, 41, and Sean P. McCawley, 42, were booked Thursday into the Douglas County Jail, where both were held on $75,000 ...
Story last updated at 8:43 p.m. Friday Administrators at Lawrence High School confiscated a Taser from a student after it discharged on school property Thursday morning, district spokeswoman Julie Boyle said in an email to media Friday afternoon. In a news release sent at 12:21 p.m. Friday, ...
A Lawrence man was arrested this week after being charged with a sex crime he allegedly committed in 2017. Matthew Charles Hart, 40, was arrested Thursday in connection with the case, jail records indicate. A charge of aggravated criminal sodomy, a felony, was filed against him in November in ...
Story last updated at 6:30 p.m. Friday Friday’s snow was blamed for more than 20 wrecks in Douglas County, none of which involved major injuries, according to law enforcement agencies. After heavy snow began falling around 8:30 a.m., the Lawrence Police Department responded to 17 accidents ...
Story updated at 4:59 p.m. Thursday A Southwest Middle School student allegedly threatened to shoot another student during the bus ride home from school on Monday, the Lawrence school district announced Thursday afternoon. The Lawrence police department is helping the school investigate after ...
Criminal charges have been filed against a boy who reportedly was carrying a gun on his person at Lawrence High School this week. He’s charged as a juvenile with theft, a felony, for allegedly stealing the gun from his mother, and also with criminal use of weapons, a misdemeanor, for ...
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 163 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
Story updated at 6:10 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 13: Lawrence high school administrators and the Lawrence Police Department were investigating a student’s report of a threatening Snapchat post Wednesday afternoon, the district said in a news release. A Free State High School student allegedly ...
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 187 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
An upcoming event is planned to help residents with convictions in Douglas County figure out if those convictions could be erased from their records. The “Clean Slate Expungement Clinic” will take place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday, Feb. 22, at Douglas County District Court, 111 E. 11th ...
A trial date has been set for University of Kansas star football player Pooka Williams, who faces a charge of domestic battery. On Wednesday in Douglas County District Court, Judge James T. George set Williams' trial for 9 a.m. June 3. The court had previously granted Williams a diversion in ...
The Lawrence school district announced that it will take some immediate actions in light of two students bringing guns to Lawrence High School within the span of a week — one on Wednesday, Feb. 6, and one on Tuesday. In an email to media late Tuesday evening, district spokeswoman Julie ...