A Lawrence woman has been charged with multiple felonies after an alleged altercation while cooking. Roslyn Michelle Colum, 37, was arrested the evening of Friday, Nov. 8, at Lawrence’s Graystone Apartments, in the 500 block of Graystone Drive. Update • Feb. 28, 2020: Case dismissed against Lawrence woman charged in alleged fight while cooking A group of people were cooking “when a disagreement ...
Story updated at 1:37 p.m. Wednesday: First responders rescued two contract workers from a capsized raft in the Kansas River near Lawrence's Burcham Park Wednesday morning. Officers were dispatched to the area, 200 Indiana St., when two men were seen hanging on to a capsized raft in the river, Lawrence Police Sgt. Amy Rhoads said in an email. The two were contractors performing maintenance on the water ...
A ticket broker’s lawsuit seeking to keep confidential the details of its agreement with Kansas Athletics Inc. is set to go to trial before a judge next year. Overland Park-based Tickets for Less LLC is the exclusive broker for Kansas men’s basketball tickets, the Journal-World has reported. The company filed the lawsuit in December 2018, hoping to keep what it argues are “trade secrets” under wraps. ...
The suspect in a shooting outside a Lawrence bar over the weekend has died, police said Wednesday. Terry Dean Scearce III, 30, of Lawrence, suffered life-threatening injuries in connection with the shooting, which occurred just after 2 a.m. Sunday in the parking lot of Playerz Sports Bar, 1910 Haskell Ave. Scearce allegedly shot a man and a woman; however, Scearce was reported to have suffered the most ...
A 26-year-old man convicted in a hit-and-run accident that left multiple people injured on May 19, 2017, was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months of probation. Andrew A. Walden, formerly of Iola, admitted to police that he rear-ended a broken-down Dodge Neon that several people were trying to push in the lanes of the 900 block of West 23rd Street, then kept on driving, according to a police affidavit in the case. ...
A Lawrence man suing the city over Queens Road taxing districts has two weeks to secure an attorney, a judge ruled Tuesday, or the entire case could be dismissed. In January, Kurt Schaake, a Queens Road homeowner, filed a lawsuit against the City of Lawrence in Douglas County District Court claiming that the taxing districts are arbitrary and capricious and therefore out of line with state law, the ...