Lawrence police plan to conduct a sobriety checkpoint next week, on Thursday, at an undisclosed location in the Lawrence city limits. The effort is meant to deter people impaired by alcohol or drugs from driving in the first place, as well as detect those who do drive under the influence, the department said, in a news release announcing the upcoming checkpoint. “The goal of the checkpoint is to reduce the ...
A former Ohio professor convicted this week of trying to hire a teen prostitute in Missouri previously studied and worked as a graduate teaching assistant at the University of Kansas and regularly returned to this area. Kevin C. Armitage, 53, pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to crossing state lines to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor in May 2018. Armitage was visiting Lawrence when he ...
Thousands of old Douglas County arrest warrants are poised to be erased in a special sweep by the district attorney’s office. District Attorney Charles Branson announced Wednesday that he filed a motion for a court order to purge 2,433 warrants in old criminal and traffic cases. He said the original offenses ranged from a decade to over 30 years old, and most were “minor misdemeanor offenses or failure to ...
Police say two masked suspects barged into a home overnight while the Lawrence residents were sleeping and threatened to harm them. The incident was reported about 3:10 a.m. Monday in the 900 block of West 22nd Street, Lawrence police said in an email to media. The suspects, both males, were wearing masks and all black clothing, according to police. They threatened to harm the homeowners if they didn’t do ...
A man linked to a reported aggravated robbery and other crimes in 2018 in Lawrence has been arrested. Liberty J. Morgan, 23, was arrested Friday on a warrant and held on $35,000 bond, according to jail records, which list his address as Pine Ridge, S.D. Court records filed last year list a Lawrence address. He’s charged with aggravated robbery, robbery and criminal threat, all felonies, plus assault and two ...
At the end of Kansas’ next high school wrestling season, there will — for the first time — be an officially sanctioned state tournament for girls only. The Kansas State High School Activities Association board on Friday voted 63 to 2 to support adding the sport, KSHSAA executive director Bill Faflick said. He said the move was expected to lead to more girls participating in high school wrestling statewide ...