A 23-year-old Lawrence man was arrested at a strip club early Saturday morning on suspicion of an alleged aggravated assault at a different business about an hour prior.
Sgt. Amy Rhoads, public affairs officer for the Lawrence Police Department, told the Journal-World via email that officers responded to a business in the 700 block of New Hampshire Street around 12:30 a.m. Saturday regarding a disturbance with ...
A 34-year-old Lawrence man was arrested Friday and later charged with a violent sex crime, according to police and the Douglas County Jail booking log.
Just before 1 a.m. Friday, Lawrence police officers were called to the 700 block of Lincoln Street to reports of a disturbance possibly involving a sex crime, Sgt. Amy Rhoads said via email. Officers took a man into custody at the scene. Rhoads said LPD could ...
The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office has verified the identity of a man who was killed in a single-vehicle crash in July.
Avery Mojica, 21, of Lawrence, was the only occupant of his vehicle, heading northbound in the 1300 block of East 1900 Road around 11:45 p.m. Friday, July 26. The vehicle then left the road just north of Kansas Highway 10 and the Twin Oaks Golf Complex west of Eudora, Jenn Hethcoat, a ...
Two men allegedly attempted to avoid being arrested Thursday in separate Lawrence incidents, and they may have made things more difficult for themselves as a result.
At 1:50 a.m. Thursday, an officer tried to stop a vehicle for a traffic infraction near 11th and Massachusetts streets, Sgt. Amy Rhoads, public information officer for the Lawrence Police Department, told the Journal-World via email.
The vehicle ...
Police have released the name of the woman who died after an accident on the night of Aug. 20.
Elizabeth Ann Allen, 24, of Lawrence, was riding her moped in the 2700 block of Haskell Avenue when a pickup truck hit her, police said.
Officers were called to the scene around 10:20 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 20, after multiple calls saying that a pedestrian may have been hit by a vehicle, police said. Allen died as ...
A man whose motorcycle collided with an SUV on Friday near 23rd Street and East Hills Drive is still hospitalized, police say.
Patrick Compton, a spokesman for the department, said via email Wednesday that the 37-year-old motorcyclist, who was taken to a Kansas City-area trauma center with life-threatening injuries on Friday, is still in critical condition.
Compton said that out of respect for the family, ...
