Updated at 2:45 p.m. Monday
A man who died in a motorcycle crash in west Lawrence early Sunday morning has been identified.
The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office said the motorcyclist was 25-year-old Gabriel F. Sosman-Bernhardt. He died in a crash, sometime after failing to stop for a police officer, according to a Lawrence Police Department news release.
Shortly after 1 a.m., an officer initiated a traffic ...
A University of Kansas study found about 40% of opioid-addiction treatment centers in the Kansas City area have a “mixed-to-negative attitude” toward treating people who have been prescribed medications to fight their addiction.
As addiction to opioids has become a national crisis in recent years — in 2017, 11.4 million people reported they misused opioid painkillers and 47,600 died from overdosing, ...
A former University of Kansas assistant volleyball coach was convicted of two felonies for entering homes and stealing underclothes and other garments from the athletes he coached.
Skyler N. Yee, 24, pleaded no contest Friday in Douglas County District Court to two felony counts of burglary. As part of a plea agreement, prosecutors agreed to drop 13 other charges that Yee was facing.
Judge Peggy Kittel ...
Douglas County will end the use of one herbicide and continue using another for the treatment of unwanted vegetation at Lone Star Lake.
After hearing from public works director Keith Browning during their regular meeting on Wednesday, Douglas County commissioners accepted his plans for herbicide use at the lake. But before that, the commissioners heard from a local fishing enthusiast who argued that some of the ...
About 20 trees near Lone Star Lake have likely been damaged by herbicides, and Douglas County staff plans to remove some of them, a county official recently said in a memo to Douglas County commissioners.
The commission will discuss the issue during its Wednesday meeting and possibly give direction on how to address it.
In a memo to the commissioners, Public Works Director Keith Browning said a concerned ...
Local police are searching for a man and woman suspected of forging checks in Lawrence over the weekend.
The Lawrence Police Department responded to a call at 7 p.m. Saturday in the 2400 block of Fairfield Street for a man and a woman allegedly trying to use a checkbook belonging to someone else, the department said in a Monday news release.
The police identified a car at a nearby gas station that matched the ...
