The Lawrence Police Department received one racial or other bias-based policing complaint over the past year, the department reported to a citizen oversight board this week.
After receiving the complaint in September, the department’s Office of Professional Accountability investigated and closed the matter in May, according to the report. The involved officer, who was not named in the report, was exonerated. ...
Prosecutors are now asking for two teens charged in a double shooting case to be tried as adults instead of juveniles.
Motions to authorize their prosecutions as adults were filed Wednesday in the cases of Benson J. Edwards Jr., 17, and Sahavione K. Caraway, 17, both of Topeka, Douglas County District Court records show. Assistant District Attorney Bryant Barton wrote in his motions that he would present ...
Shawn K. Smith — charged with first-degree felony murder from a man’s death in a 2017 hotel room shootout — was going to get a second trial this fall.
Instead, Smith entered a plea and was convicted of a less severe crime Thursday in Douglas County District Court.
Smith, 20, of Kansas City, Mo., pleaded no contest to robbery, with the judge finding the crime was committed with a deadly weapon, said ...
Story updated: 9:42 a.m. Thursday.
Sixth Street has reopened after being shut down because of a gas leak in a construction area Thursday morning.
The street was reopened about 9:40 a.m., Lawrence Police Department spokesman Patrick Compton said. He said it had been closed to traffic in both directions between Ohio and Tennessee streets for close to 30 minutes, until Black Hills Energy arrived on scene and ...
The next step for a one-time Lawrence rape suspect who violated his probation won’t be decided this week.
A judge on Wednesday bumped a probation violation hearing for Jared L. Wheeler, 24, until July 25.
“I want to make sure we have time for a thorough hearing,” Douglas County District Court Judge Amy Hanley said.
Wheeler’s appointed attorney, Charles Whitman, wants to present evidence to support ...
Neither driver was ticketed in a low-speed collision that seriously injured a scooter driver, according to the Lawrence Police Department accident report released this week.
The crash happened shortly after 11 a.m. June 20 at the intersection of 21st and Tennessee streets, which is marked with four-way stop signs.
Both vehicles had stopped — the scooter was eastbound on 21st and a pickup was northbound on ...
