Updated at 5:02 p.m. Thursday
A Lawrence man rescued a woman Thursday morning after she drove her car into the Kansas River near downtown Lawrence.
The man, Zach Beebe, 30, told the Journal-World he was on the south bank of the river near Powerhouse Road, cleaning out a friend’s truck, when a young woman drove an SUV rapidly into the river.
Beebe said he yelled at the woman to stop, but she kept on going ...
A Lawrence man who was on probation for child pornography convictions was charged with 14 more child pornography counts on Thursday.
Bruce Stanley Springsteen, 65, was charged Thursday with 14 counts of sexual exploitation of a child by possessing explicit media of a child under the age of 18, according to charging documents.
The documents say the charges stem from an incident that took place on June 19. ...
Two Lawrence men were charged on Thursday with aggravated robbery and aggravated burglary for allegedly taking alcoholic beverages from the occupants of an apartment at gunpoint, according to court documents.
The men, Trevon Andrew Anderson, 19, and Isaiah Jawone Mabry, 21, were each charged in Douglas County District Court with one count of aggravated burglary and three counts of aggravated robbery, according ...
The former wife of a convicted child molester waived her right on Tuesday in Douglas County District Court to a preliminary hearing and is pursuing criminal mediation regarding allegations that she concealed her husband's crimes.
In a preliminary hearing, a judge would have decided if enough evidence existed to order the woman, Lorene Rose Martins, to stand trial.
Martins, 47, of Lawrence, is charged with two ...
Lawrence firefighters extinguished a small fire at a dental office Tuesday morning, and one employee of the business was taken to the hospital.
Emergency crews with Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical responded a little after 10 a.m. to reports of a fire at the Lawrence Dental Center, 647 Country Club Terrace, according to a news release from the department.
The fire occurred in the ceiling of the basement ...
Updated at 5:38 p.m. Tuesday
A Topeka man was sentenced Tuesday in Douglas County District Court to 46 months in prison, or nearly four years, for killing a man in Douglas County and for two counts of theft.
The man, Mehki McDaniel, 20, was charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of Peyton Whitaker, 18, of Topeka, on Nov. 24, 2021. He pleaded guilty in April to the lesser charge of involuntary ...
