The city of Lawrence has earned a high “A” for LGBTQ inclusivity in annual rankings by the Human Rights Campaign, in large part because of score improvements in the category of law enforcement.
Lawrence scored 98 out of 100 possible points on the 2020 Municipal Equality Index, or MEI, which scores cities on various criteria including nondiscrimination protections, policies for municipal employees, city ...
Former University of Kansas basketball player Silvio De Sousa was formally charged with aggravated battery during a brief first appearance in court Friday.
De Sousa appeared with counsel Hatem Chahine on a summons for the midlevel-severity felony.
The probable cause affidavit supporting the charge alleges that De Sousa struck a man who told him to “shut the (expletive) up” around 2:30 a.m. on Jan. 1 ...
A man was charged during a first appearance in court Friday in connection with an August shooting that critically injured a 6-year-old boy.
Rashun B. Lewis, 27, is charged with aggravated endangering a child, a low-level felony. He appeared in Douglas County District Court Friday with attorney Nick David.
Tayshawn Mack Harris, 6, was shot in the head and flown to Children’s Mercy hospital in critical ...
Almost a year after pleading guilty in two cases stemming from thefts of grease, a man has been sentenced to probation, and he told the judge he’s going to turn his life around.
Byron P. Aston, 30, previously of Springfield, Mo., was charged Feb. 27, 2019, with felony theft for allegedly stealing more than a ton of used cooking grease from bins behind three downtown Lawrence restaurants. Prosecutors said ...
A judge sentenced a man to two years of probation Thursday in what began as a rape case, and she told the man to stop saying the victim was lying, as he has been convicted of a felony.
Evan P. Hiesberger, 23, was initially charged with rape of a victim overcome by force or fear, a severe level-1 felony, and violation of a protective order, a misdemeanor. On Oct. 22, he pleaded no contest to a less severe, ...
Three family members made it out of their home safely Wednesday morning and the home was saved thanks to working smoke detectors, according to Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical.
Residents of a home in the 1000 block of Summerfield Way, which is in a neighborhood near Harvard Drive and Congressional Way in west Lawrence, were awakened by smoke alarms, according to a news release from Tom Fagan, LDCFM ...
