Lawrence police arrested a man overnight after he was reportedly seen downtown with no clothes on. About 4 a.m. Thursday, officers first were dispatched to the 800 block of Massachusetts Street, where a naked man was reportedly seen in the alley, Sgt. Amy Rhoads said in an email. She said an officer ended up finding the man, still with no clothes on, at the southern entrance to the Kansas River bridge. The ...
Story updated at 5:44 p.m. Thursday, April 11, 2019: A Lawrence middle schooler has been criminally charged in connection with last week’s report that he threatened on social media to bring guns to school and shoot people. The boy has been charged as a juvenile with one count of criminal threat, a felony, according to Cheryl Wright Kunard, assistant to the Douglas County district attorney. The complaint ...
Update at 12:18 p.m. Thursday A judge has dismissed a DUI charge against a University of Kansas law instructor who’s now one of two finalists in the race to become mayor of Kansas City, Mo. Quinton D. Lucas, 34, of Kansas City, announced the dismissal Thursday in a news release. Citing insufficient evidence, Lawrence Municipal Court Judge Scott Miller and a city prosecutor agreed to dismiss the case without ...
Story updated 6:21 p.m. Wednesday, April 10, 2019: The University of Kansas Natural History Museum this week found itself in the middle of a big flap over a “baby” fossil. The museum pulled a set of juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex bones from public view following criticism about the fossil’s private owner posting it for sale on eBay for $2.95 million — and highlighting KU ties to bolster his pitch. Those ...
The owner of a Lawrence towing company was killed while changing a tire on a college baseball team’s bus over the weekend. Lawrence resident Kevin Raasch, 53, owned and operated TransMasters Towing and Roadside Recovery for over 30 years, according to his obituary. The fatal accident happened about 12:30 a.m. Sunday on the Baker University campus in Baldwin City, after the Baker baseball team’s matchup ...
Two Lawrence men charged in a human trafficking, rape and kidnapping case are trying to work out plea deals with prosecutors, their attorneys said in court Tuesday. BJ Lauri, 44, and John W. Brown, 51, had been scheduled to have preliminary hearings in Douglas County District Court, where their alleged victim would have been called to the witness stand. Instead, both waived those hearings and pleaded not guilty ...