In a case particularly “fraught with emotion,” his attorney said, a Lawrence man was sentenced Wednesday in connection with his own young daughter’s shooting death. Douglas County District Court Judge Paula Martin granted a one-year probation for Chance M. Smith, 33. Noting Smith had ...
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 198 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
Law enforcement arrested three Kansas City, Mo., men on Interstate 35 Tuesday night after they allegedly committed a violent crime in Baldwin City. An armed home-invasion robbery was reported about 7:20 p.m. in the 100 block of Santa Fe Drive, Baldwin City interim police chief Mike Pattrick ...
A Lawrence man has been arrested on rape charges in connection with an incident that occurred last year. Erick W. Ogwangi, 33, was booked into the Douglas County Jail and released after posting $30,000 bond on Wednesday, jail records indicate. He is charged with one count of rape, a felony, ...
A man allegedly seen touching himself while driving around the University of Kansas campus this summer — multiple times in a two-day span — has been arrested. Campus wasn’t the only place he struck those days, either, court documents allege. David D. Schumock, 27, of Lawrence, is ...
Someone shot up a vehicle in North Lawrence early Wednesday morning, hitting the nearby garage, too, police say. Initial gunshot reports came from the 700 blocks of Lake and Hickory streets about 1:40 a.m., according to an email from Officer Shawn Gross of the Lawrence Police Department. ...
After a second full day of jury selection, a panel still hadn’t been picked to decide the downtown Lawrence triple murder case. Potential jurors were asked to return to the courthouse Wednesday morning to continue the process. The group of roughly 170 potential jurors summoned Monday ...
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 210 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
One of four women who tried to steal thousands of dollars worth of blue jeans from a downtown Lawrence shop will do prison time for the crime. However — in part because the woman is the mother of three small children, including an infant — a judge granted her special request for a shorter ...
Honestly, who steals a lizard? Allegedly, three out-of-county visitors to Pet World in Lawrence. Clearwater, a bearded dragon lizard who is rehabilitating at the pet store, was allegedly abducted by a woman and two accomplices who were recently eyeing the lizard for some time in the store, ...
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 157 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
Story updated at 5:45 p.m. Monday, Nov. 5, 2018. Close to 170 potential jurors flowed into the Douglas County District Courthouse Monday morning, kicking off the court’s largest jury selection operation in recent history, if ever. The group will be carved down to a panel of 12 jurors to ...
Multiple people reported hearing yelling and gunshots Sunday night in the 2500 block of West Sixth Street. Police checked it out and found spent shell casings and rounds of ammunition in the parking lot of the Country Club on 6th apartments, but no one reported being injured or having ...
A shooting and a series of armed robberies — where suspects barged into homes wearing creepy masks — earlier this year in Lawrence all had a common denominator: The same man setting up sham marijuana buys from people he knew were selling. But instead of buying, the man’s cohorts ...
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 275 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
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 252 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
A man who falls on “the spectrum,” according to his attorney, was sentenced to 10 years in prison Friday for molesting a 5-year-old girl. Philip J. Foster, 19, of Eudora, appeared before Douglas County District Court Judge Paula Martin, who sentenced him to 122 months in prison. Once ...
Kasold Drive has reopened after a gas leak in the area forced its closure Friday afternoon south of Sixth Street. A construction crew struck a gas line at about 1:40 p.m. near Kasold and Ninth Court, Officer Derrick Smith of the Lawrence Police Department said. Kasold was shut down south 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. Thursday to 6 a.m. Friday and includes 280 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
A 38-year-old Lawrence man has admitted making more than 100 calls to 911 threatening to commit sexual assaults, which apparently never occurred. Justin Allen Roehrich pleaded no contest on Wednesday to three counts of making a false alarm. The Kansas City Star reports prosecutors said ...