Story updated at 7:49 p.m. Friday, Aug. 16: A driver was injured and an SUV struck a house as a result of an accident Friday afternoon, according to a report from the Kansas Highway Patrol. Reached by phone Friday evening, Lawrence City Commissioner Matthew Herbert confirmed that the home on Kasold Drive is one of his rental properties. A 20-year-old Overbrook man was reportedly driving a Ford F150 southbound ...
A woman suffered suspected serious injuries in a single-car accident Friday afternoon near Lawrence Municipal Airport, according to the Kansas Highway Patrol. The 59-year-old Independence, Mo., woman was reportedly driving erratically and heading westbound on U.S. Highway 40 near North 1802 Road at 3:40 p.m. Friday, according to a crash report from KHP. The report says the woman’s 2018 Jeep Cherokee left ...
A former Lawrence police officer was sentenced to probation Thursday in connection with a Johnson County highway road rage incident. Jeffrey Brian Holtzman, 53, was initially charged with aggravated assault for allegedly threatening another man with a deadly weapon on Oct. 18, 2018. The victim told police that he was driving on Interstate 435 near Interstate 35 when Holtzman pulled alongside him and pointed ...
Story updated at 4:56 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2019: A judge on Wednesday sentenced Shawn K. Smith, 20, of Kansas City, Mo., to 32 months in prison in connection with a 2017 hotel room shootout that left one man dead and two others injured. Smith has already served 698 days of that, or nearly two years, as he awaited trial. Smith was charged with first-degree felony murder and was set to go to a second ...
Story updated at 10:15 a.m. Thursday A Lawrence woman has been charged with a felony and a DUI in Douglas County District Court after a car accident injured one person. Autumn Sky Hale, 43, was reportedly eastbound on East 19th Street in a Toyota Camry around 1:24 a.m. Tuesday, near the intersection with Haskell Avenue. The Camry was approaching a flashing red traffic light, Sgt. Amy Rhoads, of the Lawrence ...
It’s not clear exactly how, but a gate to the University of Kansas chancellor’s residence was damaged over the weekend. Deputy Chief James Anguiano, of KU police, said Tuesday that someone had caused an estimated $1,500 in damage to a gate leading to 1532 Lilac Lane from Louisiana Street. Anguiano said the cause wasn’t entirely clear, but it’s possible someone intentionally drove into the gate. The ...