Two Lawrence residents filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against the City of Lawrence and various municipal employees, claiming that their First Amendment rights were violated when they were trespassed from the North Lawrence homeless camp where a resident had just been found dead.
The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court of Kansas by attorney Joseph T. Welsh, of Sublette, on behalf of Michael Eravi ...
An 18-year-old Lawrence man was arrested Thursday afternoon in connection with recent acts of vandalism in North Lawrence, including damage to a bus stop decorated with Indigenous art.
Police arrested Mixon Edward Spreier, 18, of Lawrence, at around 4 p.m. Thursday on suspicion of multiple counts of criminal damage to property, according to the Douglas County Jail booking logs.
A social media post Thursday ...
Updated at 4:06 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 15
A Lawrence man was charged Wednesday with second-degree murder in connection with a shooting death in June.
The man, Maliqe Crenshaw, 22, was arrested by Lawrence police around 2:45 p.m. Tuesday in the 2200 block of Louisiana Street, according to a social media post from the department. On Wednesday, he was formally charged in Douglas County District Court.
The charge ...
An auto burglary suspect crashed into a building early Wednesday morning while fleeing from police before he was arrested, and police are asking for the public's help in identifying two additional suspects.
Police were alerted to alleged auto burglaries in the 2400 block of Lawrence Avenue just before 2:30 a.m, according to a social media post from the Lawrence Police Department. A Douglas County sheriff’s ...
A December preliminary hearing was set on Wednesday in Douglas County District Court for a former University of Kansas basketball player accused of raping a woman.
The man, Arterio Demetrius Morris, 20, of Dallas, faces one felony count of rape in connection with an incident on Aug. 28 involving an 18-year-old woman at the KU basketball player’s dormitory, McCarthy Hall, as the Journal-World reported.
At ...
A Lawrence man known for commenting at public meetings about mask policies during the coronavirus pandemic has filed a federal lawsuit alleging violations of his free speech rights and naming two Lawrence city commissioners, the City Commission as a whole, the Lawrence Public Library board and several library employees.
Justin Paul Spiehs, 42, alleges in the lawsuit filed this week in the U.S. District Court ...
