The Lawrence Police Department wants to provide more public education for the community, and it’s planning community conversations on big topics in the coming weeks to do that.
The first event, slated for Tuesday, Oct. 22, will focus on internet safety for kids and teens. The second and third, scheduled for next month, will be active shooter training for civilians.
Officer Shelby Frazier, an LPD school ...
A former employee of the Willow Domestic Violence Center has filed a lawsuit in federal court, alleging that the nonprofit failed to pay her and others overtime wages, retaliated against her and wrongfully fired her.
According to the complaint filed Oct. 11 in the U.S. District Court of Kansas in Kansas City, Kan., Maggie Reynolds was a program coordinator at The Willow’s Ottawa facility until she was fired ...
A Baldwin City man was willing to pay $2,000 per month for weekly meetings with a woman he believed to be a sex worker, according to allegations filed against him in court.
James Ryan Reynolds, 43, was arrested at 12:30 p.m. Sept. 11 and charged Sept. 25 with promoting the sale of sexual relations, the Journal-World has reported.
On his former Freestate Realty LLC bio page, which has disappeared in the time ...
A man suspected of stealing between $1,000 and $2,000 in cash from the Islamic Center of Lawrence entered a plea of no contest and was convicted Thursday in Douglas County District Court.
Amadou O. Bah, 32, was found guilty of one count of burglary of a nondwelling, a felony. As part of the plea, the prosecutor dropped a low level-severity felony theft charge and a misdemeanor charge of criminal damage to ...
A Lawrence man has been convicted of repeated sex crimes beginning when a girl was 12 up until the time she was 15.
Frank J. Martinez, 36, was initially charged with three counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child, all offgrid-level felonies, and two counts of indecent liberties with a child, both lower-level felonies.
On Thursday, he pleaded no contest to one count of aggravated indecent ...
A judge on Wednesday sentenced a Lawrence man to 136 months, or 11 years and four months, for kidnapping and aggravated sexual battery.
BJ Lauri, 45, initially faced more severe charges, including aggravated criminal sodomy, aggravated human trafficking, aggravated assault, criminal threat, kidnapping and robbery, the Journal-World has reported. He later pleaded no contest to the two lesser charges, and he ...
