Updated at 3:32 p.m. Monday, Nov. 24 Several people were held at gunpoint over the weekend and some were strip-searched after a man claimed money had been stolen from him at an apartment on Michigan Street, according to Lawrence police. LPD's Crisis Response Team was activated early Sunday ...
A multivehicle crash on the South Lawrence Trafficway on Saturday shut down a portion of Iowa Street for about an hour, according to a social media post from the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies, troopers and Lawrence police responded to a crash on U.S. 40/Kansas Highway 10 near ...
A registered sex offender who was found guilty of another sex crime against a child was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Thursday in Douglas County District Court. The offender, Calvin Lee Payne, 36, was convicted in September after pleading no contest to one count of criminal sodomy against ...
A woman called dispatch on Thursday morning after seeing an apparently intoxicated man climbing a metal archway sculpture in Watson Park. The call came in just before 10 a.m. after the woman saw a shirtless man climbing the sculpture, according to a social media post from the Lawrence Police ...
Lawrence police are asking the public for help investigating shots that were fired on Harper Street on Wednesday. According to a social media post from the Lawrence Police Department, officers were dispatched to the 1500 block of Harper Street around 2:30 a.m. Wednesday after someone reported ...
The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office will have more deputies patrolling on county roads and highways from this Saturday, Nov. 22, through Thanksgiving weekend, looking for people without seat belts and impaired and distracted drivers. A news release from the Sheriff's Office on Thursday said ...