A hearing for a Lawrence police officer accused of misdemeanor battery in Shawnee County was delayed on Friday due to a busy court schedule. The officer, Myrone Grady, 51, is charged with one misdemeanor count of battery in connection with an incident on Jan. 27 at Shawnee Heights High School, where he was attending his son’s basketball game, as the Journal-World reported. Grady is alleged to have struck a ...
A teen girl took the stand on Thursday and testified that a man sexually assaulted her multiple times and, once police were involved, attempted to bribe her to change her story. The accused, Mark Brent Lee, 41, is charged in Douglas County District Court with one count of rape, one count of aggravated indecent liberties with a child and one count of aggravated intimidation of a witness, all felonies. The girl ...
For graduate students in the University of Kansas' architecture school, the final exam isn't just a couple of hours long, and you'll need more than a pencil and paper to take it. As a last step to earning their degrees, the students in the master's program spend a year in the school's Studio 804 capstone course, where they design and construct a real-life single-family home themselves. Sometimes they work 12- ...
A new eco-friendly house on New York Street designed and built by University of Kansas architecture students will be open for the public to view on Saturday. The house at 1040 New York St. was built by graduate students in the architecture school's Studio 804 capstone class, which is intended to give students hands-on practical experience in the design and construction process. Like past Studio 804 homes, this ...
A Lawrence man was charged on Wednesday with two counts of rape and other sex crimes. Travis Lee Turner, 36, is charged in Douglas County District Court with two counts of rape by force or fear and two counts of aggravated sodomy, all felonies, according to charging documents. The charges are in connection with an incident on May 13 and all involve the same woman. Turner was arrested at his home around 12:45 ...
Access to fireworks in Kansas just got a lot easier with the legislature approving a measure providing for year-round sales from permanent retailers and an extended seasonal retail time frame. Governor Laura Kelly signed the measure, SB 199, into law on April 8, setting parameters for new firework sale time frames as well as requiring retailers to register with the Kansas Fire Marshal. The bill allows ...