One person was taken to the hospital Thursday after a three-vehicle crash on 23rd Street, according to the Lawrence Police Department. Around 12:25 p.m. Thursday, a red sedan was traveling eastbound on 23rd Street near Learnard Avenue. For an unknown reason, the sedan crossed the center line and headed into oncoming westbound traffic, said Patrick Compton, a spokesperson for LPD. The sedan struck two other ...
Updated at 3:34 p.m. Thursday A girl was taken to a local hospital with unknown injuries after a reported “altercation between two parties” Thursday at Free State High School, police say. Officers were dispatched to the school, 4700 Overland Drive, around 12:35 p.m. Thursday, emergency radio traffic monitored by the Journal-World indicated. The call was initially reported as a child out of control, said ...
Justices of the Kansas Supreme Court will soon determine whether Danny W. Queen’s convictions in a 2017 Eudora bar shooting should be overturned and his prison sentence vacated because his trial started three days late. The Kansas Court of Appeals ruled in July that it was “obligated” to vacate Queen’s nearly 19-year prison sentence because he was not brought to trial within the 150 days allowed under ...
A man will likely spend the rest of his life in prison for his convictions in a 2018 double shooting in Lawrence that left a woman injured and a man paralyzed. Tommy J. May, 61, was sentenced Monday to a total of 679 months, or 56 years and 7 months, in prison. A jury found on Dec. 19, 2019, that May had shot a woman in the face, shot a man in the back, fled the scene of the apartment fourplex in the 700 ...
The Kansas Court of Appeals ruled in July that it was “obligated” to reverse a Eudora man’s murder conviction and vacate a nearly 19-year prison sentence because his trial started three days late. But on Tuesday, the Douglas County district attorney’s office will ask the Kansas Supreme Court to reverse that decision and keep Danny W. Queen, 39, behind bars. The state also says the circumstances of the ...
An Overland Park man was sentenced to 67 months in prison Friday for a December 2019 shooting that injured a teenage boy in Lawrence. Lawrence police told the Journal-World at the time that Lawrence Memorial Hospital staff had reported that the boy came to the emergency room with a gunshot wound in the early morning of Dec. 9, 2019. The boy was treated for a minor injury and was released from the hospital, a ...