Lawrence police arrested an Overland Park man over the weekend on suspicion of possessing a stolen firearm. Police arrested Isaac William Scott, 19, after a traffic stop at 10:45 p.m. Friday near the intersection of Clinton Parkway and Crestline Drive. While speaking to the driver of the vehicle, the police officer noticed that Scott, who was sitting in the passenger seat, had a gun in his waistband, said ...
The Kansas Highway Patrol arrested a Mississippi man in Douglas County Sunday on suspicion of driving a stolen vehicle. The patrol arrested 44-year-old John Wesley Ward, of Columbus, Miss., at 11 a.m. Sunday on Kansas Highway 10 near mile post 11, just south of Lawrence. Trooper Joshua Flemming, a spokesman for the Kansas Highway Patrol, said the responding patrol officer pulled Ward over for a speeding ...
Updated at 4:01 p.m. Friday University of Kansas star football player Pooka Williams has been arrested and charged with domestic battery following an incident at a KU dorm this week. KU police arrested Williams — whose full name is Anthony Ray Williams — at the KU Public Safety Office, 1501 Crestline Drive, and he was booked into jail at 3 p.m. Thursday, according to the Douglas County Jail's online ...
Lawrence artist John Sebelius got the chance recently to work on an unusual canvas — the shoes of his favorite football team. This Sunday, some Kansas City Chiefs players will wear cleats Sebelius designed during their game against the Baltimore Ravens as part of the National Football League’s “My Cause, My Cleats” initiative, according to a news release on the Chiefs' website. The initiative allows ...
University of Kansas police are investigating after hundreds of dollars of KU gear and other items were stolen from university athletic facilities. KU Police Deputy Chief James Anguiano said a series of thefts occurred at various dates starting in late October. In early November, a suspect allegedly entered Wagnon Student Athlete Center, 1555 Irving Hill Road, and stole $750 of KU gear in the center and Allen ...
Local photographer Gary Mark Smith is hanging up his photographs in public one last time. Smith, who has made a career of international street photography, will soon release what he said will be his last book, “Travelogueing the Dark Side.” He said the book is a memoir of his experiences “photographing the poetry of everyday life on the streets of the civilized world’s most frightening discomfort ...