Lawrence police and Douglas County deputies worked several crashes overnight and helped multiple motorists during the overnight snowstorm.
Just before 10 p.m. Tuesday, a vehicle skidded off the road on Kansas Highway 10 just east of the Iowa Street exit, said George Diepenbrock with the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office. Both the driver and the passenger of the vehicle were taken to a Topeka area hospital with ...
Story updated at 5:07 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 12:
A Lawrence man was being held on Wednesday in the Douglas County Jail without a bond on a warrant from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Bartolo Lucas Perez, 24, of Lawrence, was arrested around 10 p.m. Tuesday on suspicion of several minor infractions, including driving without a valid license, lack of insurance, transporting an open container and failure ...
A wheelchair user is suing the City of Lawrence, a bus driver and bus company Transdev, claiming that an improperly trained driver failed to secure his chair and that he fell and suffered a concussion and other injuries as a result.
The suit was filed by Matthew Hull on Dec. 13, 2024, just shy of two full years after the incident on Dec. 16, 2022. Hull alleges that the driver, who is referred to in the filing ...
Police now believe there are "more than two potential victims" in the case of a speech pathologist accused of sex crimes against students at Prairie Park Elementary School, and they're urging parents to talk to their kids and report anything concerning.
Lawrence Police Deputy Chief Anthony Brixius gave those updates at a press conference on Tuesday about the investigation into Mark Elliot Gridley, 60, of ...
The National Weather Service in Topeka is forecasting 5-8 inches of snow Tuesday night with freezing temperatures throughout the week.
Light snow is expected Tuesday morning with heavy accumulations after midnight into Wednesday, said meteorologist Nathan Griesemer in Topeka. He said the snow would last through Wednesday afternoon.
“It will be a pretty dry, fluffy snow. We are not expecting a lot of ice ...
A prosecutor made a strong case on Monday for a high bond amount in keeping an alleged habitual Lawrence domestic abuser in jail.
Douglas County Deputy District David Greenwald said that defendant Servando Joel Martinez Vazquez, 25, had accumulated several charges of domestic battery since 2019 and in the most recent allegations, he is alleged to have battered a woman who has a protection order against him, ...
