Updated at 11:49 a.m. Monday, Nov. 6
Lawrence High School lifted a lockdown Monday morning after about 30 minutes. The lockdown was imposed after a 14-year-old student reportedly brought a firearm to the school. Police said they eventually found a pellet gun at a park nearby.
The lockdown at the school, 1901 Louisiana St., started around 10 a.m. and was lifted around 10:30 a.m. Social media posts from Lawrence ...
A Lawrence man was sentenced to 13.5 years in prison on Friday in a burglary and assault case in which police used a digital “geo-fence” to track his movements.
The man, Lee Andrew Mitchell Pennington, 35, was convicted by a jury in September of 2022 for one felony count of aggravated burglary, one felony count of aggravated assault and one misdemeanor count of stalking.
As the Journal-World previously ...
A Lawrence man was sentenced to nearly 30 years in prison on Friday for sex crimes involving a 7-year-old.
The man, Jason Edward Dallinga, 42, was originally charged with four counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child by engaging in lewd touching to satisfy a sexual desire, according to charging documents. The charges relate to incidents between January 2022 and October 2022, as the Journal-World ...
Updated at 4:25 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 2
A Lawrence woman was charged on Thursday in connection with the fentanyl overdose death of a 26-year-old man in 2022.
The woman, Terriana Audry Atkinson, 25, is charged in Douglas County District Court with one felony count of distribution of a controlled substance causing death, according to charging documents. The charges are in connection with the overdose death of ...
A Kansas City, Kansas, man was arrested Thursday morning after allegedly leading police on a car chase while drunk and crashing into a fence at an apartment complex in northern Lawrence.
Lawrence Police Sgt. Drew Fennelly said in an email that at about 1:05 a.m., an officer saw a four-door sedan commit multiple traffic violations after exiting a shopping center at 601 Kasold Drive. The officer suspected that ...
Improper use of incense was blamed for causing a house fire on Wednesday afternoon in East Lawrence, but fire crews contained the flames to a laundry room, and no injuries or major damage were reported.
Firefighters were dispatched to a house in the 900 block of Pennsylvania Street just after 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday to a report of a fire, said Fire Chief Rich Llewellyn in an email to the Journal-World. ...
