Prosecutors have dropped a felony case against a sixth-grade boy who allegedly made a school shooting threat last spring. The case against the boy was dismissed last month after he successfully completed an intervention program with Douglas County Youth Services, according to the Douglas County District Attorney’s Office. While she did not provide specifics for the boy’s case, DA’s office trial ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours. Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Monday to 6 a.m. Tuesday and includes 171 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and general address followed by a short description of the call's nature. It's important to remember that each incident only ...
On top of typical bar checks and alcohol violation reports, Lawrence police were extra busy dealing with fights last weekend in the bar district just east of the University of Kansas campus, police activity logs show. During the late-night into early-morning hours on Friday and Saturday, officers responded to at least six reports of fights in the 1300 and 1400 blocks of Ohio Street — all of which appeared to ...
Updated at 4:55 p.m. Tuesday One of two students accused of exchanging a stolen handgun on the Lawrence High School grounds has been convicted. One of the teens stole the gun from his own father on Sept. 9, 2018, then provided it to the other teen the next day, court documents allege. The teen who ended up with the gun pleaded no contest last week to criminal use of weapons, for being under 18 and possessing ...
Updated at 4:18 p.m. Monday, Feb. 4, 2019 After hearing a week of testimony, a jury took just over an hour and a half to convict a Lawrence woman of premeditated first-degree murder in the shooting and burning of her ex-boyfriend. Tria L. Evans, 39, showed no outward emotion during the reading of the verdict, which also found her guilty of three more felonies: conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, arson ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours. Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Sunday to 6 a.m. Monday and includes 158 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and general address followed by a short description of the call's nature. It's important to remember that each incident only ...