Story updated at 5:47 p.m. Monday:
OVERLAND PARK — A shootout in Kansas left both a police officer and a hit-and-run suspect dead, authorities said.
The suspect had also been charged in January in connection with multiple burglaries in Lawrence, and Douglas County prosecutors on Friday had filed a motion to revoke his bond. A family member in February had written the judge a letter saying that she feared the ...
As the coronavirus pandemic and some related government orders to shelter in place continue, testing of evidence in a long-pending Lawrence murder case has been delayed.
At a videoconference hearing Monday in the case of Rontarus Washington Jr., defense attorneys Adam Hall and Angela Keck said that an independent lab will be unable to complete DNA testing by the end of May, because of an extension of a ...
A Lawrence man was found dead Thursday afternoon in Constant Park, and investigators said there were no signs of apparent foul play.
First responders were called to Constant Park, northeast of Sixth and Tennessee streets, around 3:15 p.m. Thursday after someone found a person who was unconscious and possibly deceased, Lawrence Police Department spokesperson Patrick Compton said. An officer who arrived at the ...
The longtime incumbent Douglas County district attorney said he believes his experience and leadership are needed to “work within the system” to create change.
Charles Branson, 50, has not faced a challenger since he was first elected in 2004, even in a primary. In the upcoming Aug. 4 primary, he already had two challengers before he filed this week to run for reelection.
Branson said that when he first ...
Though many local restaurants have managed to keep their lights on through takeout orders during the coronavirus pandemic, bars that don’t serve food have not had the same option until recently.
Some bars around town are taking advantage of a new opportunity to bring in customers, and one caught the attention of neighbors last weekend.
An April 22 executive order from Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly allows bars to ...
Story updated at 3:40 p.m. Wednesday:
A Lawrence man’s body was pulled from Lake View Lake Wednesday morning after he had not returned to shore Tuesday afternoon.
Douglas County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded around 4 p.m. Tuesday to a report that Stanley Leroy Shepard Jr., 66, had been seen on the water in a boat, and callers were concerned that he had not returned to the shore with a storm ...
