The Lawrence Police Department is looking for suspects involved in a Saturday apartment robbery in which a firearm was used. Sgt. Drew Fennelly of the LPD wrote in an email to the Journal-World that at about 11:30 p.m. Saturday, police officers responded to a report of an armed robbery in an apartment in the 900 block of Arkansas St. Officers learned a firearm was discharged during the incident and were able to ...
A consulting firm has recommended that Eudora install its first traffic light with the street improvements associated with the development of the Nottingham property. A traffic signal at the intersection of 15th and Church streets is one of the recommendations in a traffic study performed by Renaissance Infrastructure Consulting, of Kansas City, Mo., that was released earlier this month with the Eudora City ...
The Kansas Highway Patrol is searching for the driver of a rental vehicle who evaded arrest after a high-speed chase late Saturday night. Lt. David Morrison said the chase started about 10:30 p.m. when a Kansas Highway Patrol officer attempted to pull over a Jeep on Kansas Highway 10 near Kill Creek Road in De Soto in Johnson County. The suspect continued west into Douglas County on K-10 before exiting into ...
After spending Saturday morning volunteering at the Baldwin City food pantry, Nancy Arnold was planning to spend the afternoon helping to make the community safer during the COVID-19 pandemic. The retired school teacher said she would be sitting in front of her mother’s old sewing machine, making use of skills she learned in her high school home economics class to produce face masks designed to help prevent ...
Updated 2:40 p.m. A large rural Douglas County church had Easter services Sunday, the day after the Kansas Supreme Court let stand Gov. Laura Kelly’s ban on religious gatherings of more than 10 people to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. The Lawrence Journal World observed about 40 vehicles shortly after 11 a.m. in the rear parking lot of the Heritage Baptist Church, 1781 East 800 Road. The Rev. Scott ...
About a month after a local nonprofit evicted the Baldwin City & Southern Railroad from a historic depot, the Baldwin City Council is proposing a solution to end the dispute. The old railroad depot at 1515 High St. is owned by the city, but the city currently leases the depot to the Santa Fe Trail Association for a nominal fee of $1 per year. The historical association, in turn, leases the depot and the ...