In a case filed four years ago, an Arkansas man has been convicted of molesting a 7-year-old in Lawrence. Willie E. Jackson, 60, of Little Rock, had been scheduled for trial this week in Douglas County District Court, but his trial was canceled after he entered a plea on Friday. He pleaded ...
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 195 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
A man was arrested Tuesday after allegedly leading law enforcement officers on a chase from Franklin County into Douglas County, driving off-road and losing a stolen box trailer he had hitched to the truck along the way. The pursuit began about 10 a.m. on U.S. Highway 59 when a Franklin County ...
One of the victims of last week’s double shooting remains hospitalized and is paralyzed from the waist down, his girlfriend says. Jeremy C. Jones, 32, of Lawrence, was shot one time, said Micki Ryan, who lived with him at the apartment where the shooting happened and who has been with him ...
A man with a head injury who initially rejected help from Lawrence police on the street ended up in a Kansas City area hospital for his injuries. Now police are looking for a person they suspect of hitting him outside a downtown bar — even though he wasn't the intended target. A fight was ...
Back in 2013, Scott H. Kobel was charged with rape, aggravated kidnapping and attempted rape of a then-28-year-old woman. Five years later — after some six attorneys, multiple stays at Larned State Hospital and its correctional facility, and an appeal of his sentence — Kobel was back in ...
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 136 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. Saturday to 6 a.m. Sunday and includes 160 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
A woman was booked into the Douglas County Jail after a Saturday morning chase in west Lawrence. Ashley Laura Lee Nelson, 38, of Kansas City, Mo., was booked into jail on suspicion of reckless driving, driving with a revoked or suspended license, driving a vehicle with an unreadable license ...
A man who got hit over the head with a bottle at a Lawrence college bar known as the Hawk is suing the business and one of its employees over the incident. Zachary Webb alleges in his lawsuit that an employee who was underage and drinking on the job hit him with the bottle and that other bar ...
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 253 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
A woman was taken by helicopter to the University of Kansas hospital after an accident left her trapped underneath a tractor on East 1600 Road. Sgt. Kristen Channel, public information officer for the Douglas County Sheriff's Office, said a 20-year-old woman was driving a 1-ton tractor and ...
An obstructed dryer exhaust outlet caused last week’s fire at the clubhouse of a Lawrence apartment complex, investigators say. The accidental fire was reported about 2:25 p.m. June 29 in the attic of the clubhouse and leasing office of Village 1 apartments at 2411 Louisiana St. It was ...
There are two sides to Carlos Espinosa-Machado, a judge highlighted Friday before sentencing him to prison. One was a musician and conductor, described as hardworking, talented and even inspirational by some of those he taught, including as a doctoral student at the University of Kansas. The ...
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 223 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
Story updated: 10:07 a.m. Friday, July 6, 2018. Six people in a bus that overturned early Friday morning on the Kansas Turnpike — plus a man driving a pickup that reportedly collided with it — were taken to hospitals for their injuries. About half the injured went to Lawrence Memorial ...
A Lawrence man conspired with a teen to rob a 15-year-old of an iPhone, while armed with a dangerous weapon, court documents allege. Kaspar A. Engelberg, 20, made his first appearance Thursday in Douglas County District Court on charges in the incident, which allegedly occurred ...
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 331 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
Firefighters had to use a ladder to rescue some residents from an overnight fire at an apartment building in southwest Lawrence. No residents or firefighters were hurt but several pet cats died from smoke inhalation from the fire, which was caused by unattended cooking, said Division Chief and ...
Story updated: 4:27 p.m. July 5, 2018. A teenager showed up at Lawrence Memorial Hospital early Thursday morning with a gunshot wound that he allegedly received after a dispute over fireworks, police said. Police were dispatched to the hospital about 12:50 a.m. regarding the shooting, Sgt. ...