The Lawrence Police Department conducted a DUI checkpoint Thursday night, during which they stopped vehicles in the 500 block of West 23rd Street, near 23rd and Louisiana streets. Police made contact with a total of 317 cars during the check lane, which was set up from 10 p.m. through 3 a.m. Friday morning, Sgt. Amy Rhoads said, in an email. She said police administered 22 field sobriety tests and arrested ...
Law enforcement caught up with a vehicle that reportedly fired gunshots into the air near Tee Pee Junction overnight, and arrested two men with “large amounts” of drugs, cash and a stolen gun, according to the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office. The incident started shortly after 2 a.m. Friday, when deputies responded to a report of shots being fired from a vehicle near the intersection of U.S. Highway 59 ...
Story updated at 6:52 p.m. Thursday, May 9, 2019: A man believed to be this area’s last Pearl Harbor survivor has died at age 100. Longtime Lawrence resident, U.S. Navy veteran and University of Kansas professor Vincent U. Muirhead died April 30, according to his obituary published this week. Muirhead was a rangefinder and optical officer on the USS Maryland when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in ...
A Lawrence man has been charged with sex crimes against a teen that allegedly occurred over a four-year period. Frank J. Martinez, 35, is charged with three counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child, all off-grid level felonies, and two counts of indecent liberties with a child, both lower-level felonies, according to a complaint filed Thursday in Douglas County District Court. The abuse allegedly ...
Story updated at 5:40 p.m. Wednesday, May 8, 2019: A Topeka man was sentenced to 10 years in prison Wednesday for his role in the 2017 shootings on Massachusetts Street that killed three people and wounded two others. Ahmad M. Rayton, 23, was originally charged with three felonies from the incident: two counts of attempted second-degree murder — for allegedly shooting one man and trying to shoot another — ...
Lawrence police officer Charles Stewart still isn’t sure who fired first outside of 620 Stowe Court on the night of June 29, 2018. In the moment, though, when he saw the man point a gun at him, he didn’t wait to find out what would happen next, the officer testified. “I started shooting at him,” Stewart said. “He was going to try to kill me.” Stewart said he emptied his magazine, firing 17 ...