Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical responders were called to a Lawrence hotel Monday afternoon to investigate mysterious containers of liquid found on the property. Division Chief Justin Temple said staff at Quality Inn & Suites Lawrence, 2309 Iowa St., discovered two clear, approximately 10-gallon containers of fluid during a routine check of the property. LDCFM was called in shortly after 12:30 p.m. ...
Lawrence police responded to a report of a shooting Sunday night, but no one was shot. Patrick Compton, a spokesman for the Lawrence Police Department, said police responded around 8:50 p.m. Sunday to the 1700 block of West 24th Street. He said it was a domestic incident and “initial findings indicate there was a shooting,” but no one was injured as a result of it. One person did suffer minor injuries in ...
Story updated at 2:27 p.m. Thursday For each of the three victims killed in a shooting on Massachusetts Street, and a fourth who was injured, the man responsible deserved a separate sentence, the judge ruled Thursday morning in Douglas County District Court. Anthony Laron Roberts Jr., 22, of Topeka, was convicted on June 25 in the triple murder that happened in a span of just a few seconds on the night of Oct. ...
Lawrence police responded to an incident they now suspect to be a swatting call, according to a department news release. Dispatchers received a call from a man claiming to have shot his wife, the release said. Officers responded around 1 a.m. Wednesday to a home in the 2400 block of Cedarwood Avenue, then learned that the call was “a probable attempt at swatting, stemming from a disagreement in an online ...
A former University of Kansas football player will face trial in connection with a woman’s allegation that he choked her and pointed a shotgun in her face. Kenny Evel Bastida, 19, waived his right to a preliminary hearing Tuesday and pleaded not guilty to all charges: two felonies, aggravated assault and aggravated battery, and two misdemeanors, criminal damage to property and possession of marijuana. The ...
Douglas County saw crime rates drop to at least a 15-year low from 2017 to 2018, a new report shows. However, violent crimes — which had consistently risen since 2015 — were nearly stagnant. The latest edition of an annual report from the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, released Thursday, focuses on “index crimes.” In that category, the FBI includes murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault/battery, ...