I recently reported that, more than a year into campus carry at the University of Kansas, the school had logged one gun policy violation. Also, no gun crimes have been reported on campus since KU began allowing concealed handguns on July 1, 2017.
Several readers reached out wondering why that article didn’t include the loaded gun found abandoned in a Wescoe Hall bathroom in September 2017.
The short answer ...
When Lawrence resident Anders Wibskov was out of state visiting family the weekend before Thanksgiving, he got some uninvited visitors of the worst kind.
Burglars broke down his back door, and cleaned house.
They took his car keys, his car, TVs, a camera, computers, other electronics, his wife’s credit cards, sentimental Christmas things and all their wine.
“Even down to my old football jerseys,” ...
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. Thursday to 6 a.m. Friday and includes 215 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 judge sent yet another co-defendant to prison Friday for an armed home-invasion robbery in which a man was shot.
Jermel Fleming, 26, of Grandview, Mo., must serve 30 months, or about 2 1/2 years, in prison with a year of post-release supervision, Douglas County District Court Judge Paula Martin ordered Friday.
Fleming is the third of five suspects to be sentenced for his role in the incident. Earlier this ...
Police used a Taser on a man who they say was wielding a knife and exhibiting threatening behavior outside a business in southern Lawrence.
The incident began about 5:35 p.m. Wednesday.
Officers were initially dispatched to a restaurant in the 2500 block of Iowa Street, where a man was reportedly acting erratically inside, Sgt. Amy Rhoads said in an email to the Journal-World. She did not specify the name of ...
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. Wednesday to 6 a.m. Thursday and includes 149 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 ...
