Lawrence businesses are celebrating the end of the construction on 23rd Street — some with special deals and giveaways — and are excited to welcome residents back to the area. The challenges of the 18-month project were at times disheartening, but at the Advantage Medical Group, 1104, E. 23rd St., they did everything they could to maintain a positive attitude and to accommodate customers even when the ...
Lawrence’s police and fire chiefs volunteered time on Friday to ring the bell and gather donations for The Salvation Army in a friendly “competition” to see which organization could raise the most in support of the charitable organization. Chief Rich Lockhart with the Lawrence Police Department and Fire Chief Rich Llewellyn with Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical both teamed up with Santa and Mrs. Claus ...
A recently released police affidavit alleges that a Eudora man exposed himself numerous times to a young teenage girl over video chat and that he forced the girl to touch him. The man, Justin Robert Royer, 42, is charged in Douglas County District Court with one felony count of aggravated indecent liberties with a child under the age of 14 by fondling or touching the child and one felony count of lewd and ...
A police officer testified on Monday that he was “cold and tired” after three hours in a sniper position during an armed standoff when a Lawrence man walked onto the scene and refused to obey commands to leave the area or take cover. The man, Phillip Michael Eravi, 54, of Lawrence, is now charged with one count of felony interference in the case. Police allege that when Eravi walked onto the scene and ...
A woman will likely be spending the next few days in the hospital after she was beaten with a metal pipe at a homeless encampment near the Lawrence Amtrak Station, according to police. Officers found the woman around 5:30 p.m. Saturday near Seventh and New Jersey streets. The woman appeared to have been hit in the face and head several times, and her face and clothes were covered in blood, according to a ...
A new trial date was set on Wednesday to retry an Alabama man who was convicted on one count of sexual extortion at trial but a Douglas County jury hung on a second count. Devaris Lamar Howard, 21, of Gadsden, Alabama, was charged in Douglas County District Court with two felony counts of sexual extortion. The charges relate to incidents between August and October of 2022 in which Howard is alleged to have ...