A crowd filled the Union Pacific Depot on Thursday to remember a reporter and advocate for the homeless community who was killed by a train last week and to show their support for her family and the causes she worked for. The ceremony drew more than 100 people to the depot in North Lawrence, just across the street from the city-run “New Beginnings” campsite where Chansi Rose Long, 40, of Lawrence, ...
Investigators with the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office confirmed on Wednesday that the woman killed by an Amtrak train on Thanksgiving Day was a local reporter and advocate for the homeless, and they have ruled out suicide or foul play. The woman, Chansi Rose Long, 40 of Lawrence, was walking on the railroad tracks to get to her car after staying the night at an encampment near Burcham Park as part of a ...
Subpoenas for the Douglas County district attorney and her deputy were modified and quashed, respectively, on Monday after their attorneys claimed that neither had enough knowledge of the prosecution of a woman whose murder conviction was overturned in a baby's death at a Eudora day care. The woman is now suing the state for wrongful conviction and imprisonment, and the DA has 30 days to name the person who will ...
After one Lawrence man described selling a fentanyl pill that killed a teenager, another man — who the first man said had been pressuring him to sell more pills — was ordered Tuesday to stand trial in connection with the death. Benjamin L. Mims, 36, of Lawrence, was bound over for trial Tuesday in Douglas County District Court on one count each of distribution of a controlled substance causing death, ...
A man was arrested Sunday night on suspicion of threatening another man with a knife at the Lawrence Community Shelter. Police responded to the shelter for those experiencing homelessness just before 7 p.m. to a report of a disturbance involving a man swinging a knife at another man, said Sgt. Drew Fennelly with the Lawrence Police Department in an email. When police arrived, the disturbance had passed, but ...
A fund began collecting money on Sunday in support of two girls whose mother was killed by an Amtrak train while she was researching homelessness in Lawrence. The fundraiser is in response to the death of Chansi Rose Long, 40, who was struck and killed by a train on Thursday morning after spending the night in a tent near Burcham Park to write a “lived experience” story on homelessness to publish online, as ...