WRITER: Sara Shepherd

Eudora police rescue man from house fire that started with cigarette dropped on mattress; home had no smoke alarms

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 ...

Suspicious death investigation goes cold in case of woman hurt while visiting Lawrence man she met online

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 ...

Lawrence police blotter for Jan. 6

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 ...

Lawrence police blotter for Jan. 5

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 ...

Man sentenced to nearly 19 years for 2017 murder outside Eudora bar

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 ...

Lawrence resident killed in accident at landfill north of city

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 ...