A new eco-friendly house on New York Street designed and built by University of Kansas architecture students will be open for the public to view on Saturday.
The house at 1040 New York St. was built by graduate students in the architecture school's Studio 804 capstone class, which is intended to give students hands-on practical experience in the design and construction process. Like past Studio 804 homes, this ...
A Lawrence man was charged on Wednesday with two counts of rape and other sex crimes.
Travis Lee Turner, 36, is charged in Douglas County District Court with two counts of rape by force or fear and two counts of aggravated sodomy, all felonies, according to charging documents. The charges are in connection with an incident on May 13 and all involve the same woman.
Turner was arrested at his home around 12:45 ...
Access to fireworks in Kansas just got a lot easier with the legislature approving a measure providing for year-round sales from permanent retailers and an extended seasonal retail time frame.
Governor Laura Kelly signed the measure, SB 199, into law on April 8, setting parameters for new firework sale time frames as well as requiring retailers to register with the Kansas Fire Marshal.
The bill allows ...
Updated at 3:35 p.m. Friday, May 9
A dog who was involved in a "bizarre" arrest at a Lawrence gas station, as police described it, is recovering at the Lawrence Humane Society, and the suspect who is alleged to have bitten the dog has been prohibited from having animals in the home if he bonds out of jail.
The dog, Smokey, was taken to the Lawrence Humane Society on Wednesday after he was allegedly bitten on ...
A Lawrence man pleaded guilty on Wednesday to a residential burglary in which the tenants caught him in their home and held him at gunpoint until police arrived.
Chasmen Edward Foster, 35, was charged with one felony count of aggravated burglary and one felony count of burglary. The charges relate to an incident on June 22, 2022, in the 1000 block of Alabama Street, as the Journal-World reported.
On ...
A Lawrence man was sentenced on Tuesday to just under five years in prison for biting a Douglas County corrections officer on the leg.
The man, Cetewayo M. Ragins, 43, was convicted by a jury in February of biting the officer in June of 2024 after he was arrested on another charge.
Judge Amy Hanley sentenced Ragins to 57 months in prison for the biting incident. His attorney, Hatem Chahine, had asked Hanley to ...
