Dozens of motorcycles and bicycles paraded through Lawrence on Thursday as part of the 2025 Kansas Law Enforcement Ride for the Fallen.
The cyclists were traveling from Leawood to Topeka to honor officers who have died in the past year, said Sgt. Drew Fennelly with the Lawrence Police Department.
According to a release from the Kansas Highway Patrol, the ride was scheduled to end at the Statehouse around 7 ...
A man told a Douglas County judge on Wednesday that he would like to spend his upcoming prison sentence at Larned State Hospital after entering a plea deal that reduced his attempted murder charge in connection with an attack near a North Lawrence homeless camp.
Tristen Lamont Hollins, 43, was charged in Douglas County District Court with one felony count of attempted first-degree murder in connection with the ...
A man testified on Tuesday that he had never met the Lawrence teen who allegedly shot him twice in the leg during a drug deal gone bad and that he still has bullet fragments from the incident in his leg.
Cameron Jay Cooper, 18, of Lawrence, is charged with one felony count each of aggravated robbery and aggravated battery in connection with a shooting on Nov. 11, 2024, around 7:45 p.m. at 3323 Iowa St., the ...
The attorney for a man alleged to have shot at a Baldwin City bar and library with the intent to kill says the man’s confession was coerced and should have been too bizarre for investigators to believe.
The defendant, Junah Augustus Sisney, 22, of Baldwin City, is charged in Douglas County District Court with one count of attempted capital murder. Sisney faces life in prison if he is convicted.
Sisney is ...
This summer, would-be archeologists can get a taste of fieldwork — looking for bottles, buttons and many other artifacts — at the ruins of a home built by a former acting territorial governor of Kansas in the 19th century.
The Kansas Archeology Training Program is currently accepting enrollees for this summer's field school, which will explore the ruins in Lecompton known as the Mount Aeolia mansion. The ...
A Lawrence man was allowed to withdraw his guilty plea in a fentanyl death case on Friday, and he now faces a July trial in the case.
Benjamin Mims, 37, pleaded guilty on May 17 to one count of voluntary manslaughter and one count of unlawful distribution of fentanyl, as the Journal-World reported. He was originally charged with distribution of a controlled substance causing death, a more severe felony.
Mims ...
