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 ...
Sabrina Frock has been dead for eight months now, after suffering a fatal head injury at the home of a Lawrence man she met online — a methamphetamine-addicted man on probation for abusing another woman he met online two years earlier.
Lawrence police are investigating Frock’s death as suspicious, but they say leads have gone cold with no conclusion on whether she was the victim of a crime.
Frock’s ...
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. Saturday to 6 a.m. Sunday and includes 192 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 ...
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. Friday to 6 a.m. Saturday and includes 186 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 ...
Story updated at 1:11 p.m. Friday
The man who fatally shot another man outside a Eudora bar, then tried to kill two others, was sentenced Friday to nearly 19 years in prison.
Danny W. Queen, 37, of Eudora, had previously argued that he was a good candidate for probation, while prosecutors and the slain man’s family asked for the maximum sentence of 260 months in prison.
Judge Peggy Kittel announced her ...
Story updated at 1:26 p.m. Friday
The man killed Friday morning in an accident at a Jefferson County landfill was a Lawrence resident.
Mark J. Wilson, 59, was on foot operating a “tipper” machine when he was pinned against the dock by a semi-trailer backing onto the machine, according to a preliminary report from the Kansas Highway Patrol. A tipper is a large piece of equipment used to dump trash from ...
