WRITER: Sara Shepherd

Lawrence police blotter for Dec. 3

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 136 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 ...

Mother accused of driving car into river pleads not guilty in daughter's drowning

Story updated at 3:14 p.m. Monday A 26-year-old mother on Monday pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder after allegedly driving her car into the Kansas River last summer in an attempt to drown her family. After passersby reported a car and people floating in the water, Scharron R. Dingledine, of Columbia, Mo., was pulled from the river near downtown Lawrence on the ...

'Porch pirates' have sights on your holiday packages; how to keep these thieves at bay

A man walks up to a southwest Lawrence house in the middle of the afternoon, a large knife in his hand. After sheathing the knife and freeing his hands, he stoops to pick up two boxes that had been delivered to the front door. Doorbell surveillance camera footage then shows him turning and carrying those packages off. The holidays may be the most wonderful time of the year for these so-called “porch ...

Lawrence police blotter for Dec. 2

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 221 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 Dec. 1

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 241 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 ...

Judge rejects self-defense argument by man accused of shooting teen during fireworks fight; jury trial will proceed

A man who found himself in a Roman candle war and fired back with a gun, hitting a 17-year-old, is not getting off the hook under Kansas’ stand-your-ground law. The man’s attorney had argued that he fired in defense of himself and his home, both of which were hit by Roman candles. However, a judge found that his use of force wasn’t justified and ordered him to stand trial on a criminal charge, the ...