Local law enforcement spent Friday morning taking Douglas County kids shopping for the holidays. The event Take Our Youth Shopping, or TOYS, is sponsored by the Elizabeth B. Ballard Community Center, 708 Elm St. It began at 8:15 a.m. on Friday, when members of the Douglas County Sheriff's Office, the Lawrence Police Department, the University of Kansas Police Department, Baldwin City and Eudora Police, and the ...
A car drove off the Kansas River Bridge early Saturday morning and landed upside down on the levee road below, and police suspect the driver may have been impaired. Police responded at 2:11 a.m. Saturday to a vehicle on its roof on the lower levee road underneath the Kansas River Bridge. When officers arrived, they observed a 61-year-old man crawling out of a gold Suzuki Vitara, said Sgt. Drew Fennelly with the ...
The only man left of five who hasn’t entered a plea in connection with an attack on an off-duty Lawrence police officer was ordered on Friday to stand trial for attempted murder. The man, Zachary Taylor Maddux, 19, of Lawrence, is charged in Douglas County District Court with one felony count of attempted first-degree murder, according to charging documents. The charge relates to an attack on Lawrence police ...
A former KU football player who allegedly called in a bomb threat that caused the evacuation of several University of Kansas football facilities in July entered into a two-year diversion agreement on Thursday to resolve a felony criminal threat charge. Joseph Michael Krause, 22, is charged in Douglas County District Court with one felony count of aggravated criminal threat, according to charging documents. The ...
A 22-year-old man wanted in Douglas County in connection with child sex crimes killed himself in Iola on Tuesday as police were attempting to arrest him, seven hours after the warrant was announced to the public. Iola police were attempting to serve the warrant around 6:30 p.m. to a residence in the 800 block of East Jackson Avenue in Iola, which is about 80 miles south of Lawrence. Officers made contact with ...
Updated at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 30 A defendant was ordered to stand trial on Thursday for second-degree murder in connection with a man who was found bludgeoned to death near downtown Lawrence. The defendant, Chadwick Elliot Potter, 34, was originally charged in Douglas County District Court with one count of first-degree murder in the death of David Blaine Sullivan, 62, of Lawrence, whose body was found ...