The search for a 74-year-old Lawrence woman has expanded into neighboring Johnson County after she was reported missing nearly three weeks ago.
Wanda Dyer is a 5-foot-2 African American woman with signs of dementia who has short gray hair and was last seen wearing a black coat with a pink lining, or possibly a hoodie, and multicolored pants. Police are asking people who’ve seen her to call dispatchers at ...
Overland Park — A Lawrence attorney on Tuesday argued to a traveling panel of appellate judges that a Douglas County judge made a big mistake when he dismissed a lawsuit by a group of Lawrence landlords over the city's new ordinance forbidding discrimination based on the source of income.
The landlords had wanted Douglas County District Judge Mark Simpson to declare the ordinance unconstitutional, but Simpson ...
A woman testified on Monday that she had been drinking heavily the night she was allegedly abducted by a fellow student and raped before escaping back to her Haskell dormitory.
The accused, Tristan Aden James, 20, a Haskell Indian Nations University student, is charged in Douglas County District Court with one count of rape, one count of kidnapping and one count of eluding police, all felonies. The charges are ...
The Lawrence Civic Choir has been delighting ears and lifting hearts for half a century and, in celebration of that milestone, will perform a “requiem for humanity” Saturday at the Lied Center.
The Lawrence Civic Choir will be performing Johannes Brahms' "German Requiem” along with a new piece, “Every Heart in Harmony,” by Kansas City composer Geoff Wilcken, said LCC Artistic Director Steven Eubank. ...
A man is alleged to have kidnapped and raped a woman in his car before fleeing from the scene, pursued by the woman’s friends and later police; speeding across Lawrence; and crashing into a pedestrian underpass.
Tristan Aden James, 20, a Haskell Indian Nations University student, is charged in Douglas County District Court with one count of rape, one count of kidnapping and one count of eluding police, all ...
A man was sentenced Monday to 14 months in prison in connection with a stolen vehicle and an ensuing cemetery rampage, but the state dismissed the grave desecration charges.
Jonathan Lee Stewart, 25, of Carbondale, Kansas, was convicted in July 2022 of burglary as part of a plea agreement wherein the state dismissed one felony count of theft and 20 felony counts of grave desecration.
The charges relate to a ...
