A senior apartment complex just south of downtown Lawrence was evacuated late Wednesday morning after a fire in one of the units. No one was injured in the incident, Battalion Chief Aaron Flory said, but one unit was fire-damaged and multiple units were water-damaged by sprinklers. He said the ...
A man who pointed a fake rifle at two people out of the backseat window of a car was convicted of felony criminal threat on Tuesday in Douglas County District Court. Tzaddi Fouch Jennings, 33, was originally charged with two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, which the criminal ...
A man who was convicted of aggravated battery following a drunk-driving incident that injured a person last summer was sentenced on Tuesday to 10 months in prison, suspended to 18 months of probation. Kody Rothfus, 34, pleaded no contest on March 6 to one count of aggravated battery while ...
Updated at 5:55 p.m. Tuesday, April 28 Two Douglas County Jail inmates charged with gun crimes and awaiting trial are now being charged with trafficking contraband in a correctional facility. Eighteen-year-old Caiden Clem, who has been charged with four counts of aggravated assault and one ...
A 34-year-old Baldwin City woman was arrested Sunday after allegedly assaulting a police officer with a rock and barricading herself inside a residence. The officer responded to a domestic violence call just after 9 a.m. Sunday in the 200 block of Eisenhower Street, according to a news release ...
Multiple fire department trucks responded just after noon Monday to an incident at Warren-McElwain Mortuary. Battalion Chief Aaron Flory said Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical units were called to a structure fire at the funeral home, 120 W. 13th St., but when they arrived they detected ...