For the second year in a row, the Lawrence Police Department has received a top honor for traffic safety from the Kansas Department of Transportation. KDOT law enforcement liaison Don Hughes presented the "platinum" safety award to members of LPD on Tuesday night at the Lawrence City ...
Detectives have arrested a 23-year-old man in Sunday's downtown Lawrence homicide. Police announced early Tuesday morning that they had taken Daileon Maurice Thomas, of Olathe, safely into custody on suspicion of first-degree murder in the death of Victor Gabriel Moreno, 23. Police have ...
In the state's telling, Shaleah Kauffman is a violent domestic abuser who should be held accountable for the six crimes she has been charged with; in the defense telling, though, she's the hapless victim of a controlling and abusive man. Douglas County jurors will hear evidence over the next ...
Updated at 11:55 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 18 Lawrence police are investigating a homicide after a man was pronounced dead Sunday in the 700 block of New Hampshire Street. Police said in a social media post that they were called to a parking lot on the west side of New Hampshire Street around 3 a.m. ...
A Douglas County jury on Thursday convicted a 27-year-old Lawrence woman of felony interference with law enforcement after she refused to obey officers who were attempting to arrest her last winter. The incident occurred on Jan. 7 outside a Hy-Vee gas station, where the woman, Jaleigha ...
A half-cent sales tax in Eudora could support three full-time firefighters and give the city around-the-clock-fire protection for the first time in its history if voters approve the measure on election day. The 0.5% sales tax would be spent on public safety expenses and cover the roughly ...