A University of Kansas football player and another KU student were injured Friday in an accident that killed an Oskaloosa man. Nicholas Caudle, 20, a redshirt freshman safety from Atchison, and his passenger, Dongchen Chen, 20, of Lawrence, were traveling south on U.S. Highway 59 at 2:40 p.m. ...
The trial for the man charged with fatally shooting three people on Massachusetts Street in 2017, which had been set to begin Feb. 4, has been delayed until June. The two-week trial for Anthony L. Roberts Jr., 21, of Topeka, is now set to begin June 10 in Douglas County District Court. His ...
Story updated at 4:11 p.m. Friday In addition to a man being shot inside the Carnegie Building last weekend, someone fired shots into an occupied vehicle nearby in relation to the same incident, police say. The shooting happened shortly after 12:30 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 5, inside the historic ...
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 216 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
Story updated at 4:17 p.m. Friday The Lawrence Police Department arrested a man late Friday morning near Ninth and Iowa streets after a short pursuit that began on the Kansas Turnpike, police said. The Kansas Highway Patrol began chasing the man on the turnpike before he drove into Lawrence ...
Four of five suspects in a December 2017 home-invasion robbery and shooting have now been sent to prison. The 21-year-old victim in that incident was flown to an area hospital, but survived — though with a bullet still lodged in his body. Brian L. Proctor, 26, of Lawrence, was sentenced this ...
Police are investigating after a dog was found dead Thursday in southern Lawrence. According to the police department's Twitter account, the dog was found near a pond in the area of 29th and Missouri streets. The department asked anyone with information on the incident to contact dispatchers ...
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 177 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
Updated at 6:50 p.m. Thursday A jury on Thursday convicted a 23-year-old former University of Kansas student of rape, for victimizing a drunken 17-year-old girl he met at a Lawrence college bar. Albert N. Wilson, now of Wichita, was charged with two counts of rape; jurors convicted him of one ...
A former goalkeeper for the University of Kansas soccer team has been charged with molesting a student while coaching and working as a teacher's aide at a Seattle high school. Court records show that 35-year-old Meghan Miller was charged last month with third-degree child molestation and two ...
Jurors at a Lawrence rape trial initially heard a young woman tearfully testify that she was 17, dizzy-drunk at a college bar, assaulted on the dance floor and then led away and raped by a man she’d just met. Jurors heard a very different account from that man. Albert N. Wilson, 23, of ...
A woman who suffered life-threatening injuries after being hit by a vehicle Saturday night is now in stable condition, Lawrence police Sgt. Amy Rhoads said Wednesday in an email to the Journal-World. The woman, 68, was crossing the street at Sixth and Michigan streets when a Chevrolet ...
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 208 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
A Tonganoxie High School student was killed and another injured in a double shooting Monday night in Kansas City, Kan. Kansas City police identified the homicide victim as Bradley J. Samsel, 18, of Tonganoxie. He was a senior at Tonganoxie High School. The second person shot in the incident, ...
Updated 9:40 a.m. Wednesday University of Kansas star football player Pooka Williams has applied for a diversion of the domestic battery charge he is facing, his attorney Hatem B. Chahine said Wednesday morning, and the court has granted his request. The terms of the diversion were not ...
Occasionally fighting back tears, a woman told a jury on Tuesday how she was raped by a man she met at a college bar — an incident that her family said has cast a shadow over her life. “She would have nightmares and get in bed with me,” the mother said of her daughter, who was 17 when ...
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 213 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
Quick-acting Eudora police officers pulled an unconscious man from a house fire early Monday morning, likely saving his life, the city’s fire chief said. The fire was reported just before 1 a.m. in a two-story house at 918 Church St., said Chief Ken Keiter of the City of Eudora Fire ...
Story updated: 5:28 p.m. Monday, Jan. 7, 2019. A jury was selected Monday to hear the trial of a Lawrence man accused of leading an intoxicated teen away from a college bar and raping her at his home a few blocks away. Opening arguments are scheduled to begin Tuesday morning, with the trial ...
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 170 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...