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. Tuesday to 6 a.m. Wednesday and includes 208 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 ...
Jurors at a Lawrence rape trial initially heard a young woman tearfully testify that she was 17, dizzy-drunk at a college bar, assaulted on the dance floor and then led away and raped by a man she’d just met. Jurors heard a very different account from that man. Albert N. Wilson, 23, of Lawrence, took the stand at his own trial on Wednesday and described the Saturday night in September 2016 when he met the ...
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 213 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 ...
A small plane had to make a sudden landing in a field north of Lawrence before reaching Lawrence Municipal Airport over the weekend. No one was injured in Saturday afternoon’s incident, according to Trooper Don Hughes of the Kansas Highway Patrol, which investigated the incident. The plane experienced a mechanical problem and was unable to make it to the airport, landing in a field in the 1600 block of ...
Story updated: 5:28 p.m. Monday, Jan. 7, 2019. A jury was selected Monday to hear the trial of a Lawrence man accused of leading an intoxicated teen away from a college bar and raping her at his home a few blocks away. Opening arguments are scheduled to begin Tuesday morning, with the trial expected to last all week. Albert N. Wilson, 23, is charged with two counts of rape in connection with the September ...
Quick-acting Eudora police officers pulled an unconscious man from a house fire early Monday morning, likely saving his life, the city’s fire chief said. The fire was reported just before 1 a.m. in a two-story house at 918 Church St., said Chief Ken Keiter of the City of Eudora Fire Department. The man had fallen asleep with a cigarette, which caught his mattress on fire — an item that typically produces ...