A fight broke out at Lawrence High School last Friday, leaving one teacher with minor injuries and causing two students to seek medical attention. Police have identified three girls as suspects in the incident.
Police responded around 9 a.m. on April 28 to the school, 1901 Louisiana St., in response to a fight, according to the Lawrence police incident log.
Lawrence school district spokesperson Julie Boyle ...
A Lawrence teen was struck and killed by a train Tuesday afternoon in Leavenworth County near the Douglas County line, according to the Leavenworth County Sheriff's Office.
The incident occurred around 1:20 p.m. Tuesday near the intersection of 254th Street and Alexander Road, said Maj. James Sherley, the undersheriff with the Leavenworth County Sheriff’s Office. He declined to provide any additional ...
Story updated at 10:13 p.m. Wednesday, May 3:
Law enforcement is investigating in central Lawrence after a man suffered life-threatening injuries in a shooting Wednesday evening, according to Lawrence police.
At 6:55 p.m., emergency responders were called to the 2400 block of Ousdahl Road, and Lawrence police Sgt. Drew Fennelly told the Journal-World that they found a man on the scene who'd been shot. He said ...
A 33-year-old man is recovering after being shot Monday night in a mobile home park near LMH Health.
Lawrence police responded around 11:45 p.m. to the 100 block of Arkansas Street for a person who had been shot, Sgt. Drew Fennelly said in an email to the Journal-World. The man was taken to an area trauma center for injuries that were not believed to be life-threatening, Fennelly said.
Officers identified ...
Two more people have been charged in an incident where a group of men allegedly raped and battered a 29-year-old woman in Douglas County and made a recording of it.
Tiger Joe Smiley and Dionte Lamont Brown, both 21-year-old men from Topeka, were arrested last month in Shawnee County and have each been charged with one count of rape in Douglas County, according to court records. Their co-defendants, 23-year-old ...
A former Douglas County district attorney who's named in a lawsuit filed by Rontarus Washington Jr. for wrongful incarceration asked the court on Thursday to dismiss the case for a number of reasons, including prosecutorial immunity, the statute of limitations and failure to specify a violation — echoing recent requests by Douglas County and several sheriffs who have also been sued by Washington, who was ...
