Just before midnight one night last month, a caller to police reported two men in a downtown Lawrence alley in the act of stealing large quantities of something most people wouldn’t want to touch.
Used restaurant grease.
Specifically, food-particle laden cooking oil, dumped into gloopy bins in the puddly, cigarette butt-strewn passageways where downtown eateries also keep their garbage dumpsters.
After ...
A teen has been convicted of stealing a handgun, which he then reportedly sold to another student at Lawrence High School.
The teen pleaded guilty as charged to felony theft on Thursday in Douglas County District Court, according to online court records. Thursday's hearing was closed to the media. According to the criminal complaint and other case documents, he stole the gun — a Hi-Point JHP45 model — from ...
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- March 30 — Lawrence police arrest 2 Topeka boys in shooting of teens at Holcom Park
Story updated at 7:09 p.m. Friday
Two teenagers were shot and wounded — one critically — Friday afternoon at Holcom Park in southwest Lawrence.
The shooting was reported just before 4 p.m. near the park’s Lawrence Avenue entrance, just north of 27th Street, where police had enclosed the parking lot ...
The victim in a Lawrence kidnapping case told police that three fellow meth users accused him of “snitching” and held him in a basement for hours while they threatened him with a switchblade and a smoking-hot hammer.
The man’s allegations are summarized in a police affidavit filed in the cases of Sean P. McCawley, 42, and Jason V. Spaniol, 41, both of Lawrence, and Stephanie A. Wiggins, 38, of Shawnee. ...
Story updated: 6:38 p.m. Wednesday, March 27, 2019.
A judge on Wednesday dismissed criminal charges against a former Lawrence police officer who shot a civilian last year as he attacked a fellow officer.
The officer made a mistake and may have been negligent, Douglas County District Court Judge Peggy Kittel said, but evidence at the preliminary hearing did not support the felony crime charged: reckless ...
Lawrence police issued no citations and don’t believe alcohol or drug impairment was a factor in a St. Patrick’s Day parade accident in which a woman tripped and was run over by a float.
Police released their accident report, which addressed those issues, this week.
The accident happened about 2 p.m. March 17 on Massachusetts Street just north of 10th Street. According to the accident report:
The driver ...
