The temperature in northeast Kansas on Wednesday has broken the record high for March 2. On March 2, 1901 — 121 years ago — the temperature reached 83 degrees in Topeka, said Kyle Poage, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Topeka. Records going back that far are not available for Lawrence. The temperature in Topeka shortly after noon Wednesday was 84 and was expected to reach 86. By 2 p.m. ...
Emergency crews were assisting at the scene of a serious car accident on Wednesday in central Lawrence. Crews were seen around 3:45 p.m. at Iowa Street and Bob Billings Parkway working an accident involving a semitrailer and a Ford Fiesta that had collided. A person in the Fiesta appeared to be trapped in the car, but was rescued by first responders and loaded onto a stretcher. This is a developing story.
The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office has received a federal grant to start a program to support survivors of domestic abuse and sexual assault. The Violence Against Women Act grant for $30,863 will be used to support the office’s advocacy staff and to train sheriff’s deputies as well as police officers in Eudora and Baldwin City to better aid survivors, according to a release from the sheriff's office. ...
Updated at 4:10 p.m. Tuesday A Douglas County judge on Tuesday sentenced a Lawrence man to 32 months in prison for a sex crime that occurred in 2018 after a woman's birthday celebration. In October 2021, the man, Nicholas J. Lewis, 26, pleaded no contest to one count of “sexually motivated” aggravated battery, a level-five felony. Judge Sally Pokorny sentenced Lewis to prison after hearing from his victim ...
A Lawrence man pleaded no contest Friday in Douglas County District Court to one count of attempted second-degree murder in the shooting of a woman in a car last spring. The man, Ontareo X. Jackson, 19, was one of two men facing charges in connection with the shooting of Caylee Nehrbass on May 27, 2021. He is scheduled to be sentenced April 5 and faces 55 to 247 months in prison, depending on his prior criminal ...
A Lecompton man was arrested after allegations that he swung an ax and a machete at a woman. The man, Aaron S. Landis, 34, was booked into Douglas County Jail Wednesday on suspicion of aggravated assault. Douglas County sheriff’s deputies responded to a call around 11:30 a.m. Wednesday in the 300 block of North 1600 Road. The deputies interviewed witnesses, and a 46-year-old woman alleged that Landis swung ...