Testimony about the Lawrence Police Department’s Taser, firearms and general use-of-force training is tentatively on the agenda in the case of an officer facing criminal charges for shooting a man.
Argument over that, however, is causing a delay in proceedings.
A preliminary hearing and immunity hearing — where the officer’s attorneys planned to argue that she acted lawfully under Kansas’ "stand your ...
In what experts call a long-shot argument, a lawyer in a Lawrence rape case tried to get a charge dismissed by claiming that under Kansas law, the victim’s “life begins at fertilization.”
Since that would make the girl 16, not 15, when the incident occurred, she can’t be the victim of aggravated indecent liberties with a child, defense attorney Cooper Overstreet wrote. The age of consent in Kansas is ...
After gunshots were heard in the area, police found bullet holes in an apartment building just southeast of the University of Kansas campus this weekend.
The incident was reported about 2:40 a.m. Saturday, Officer Shawn Gross of the Lawrence Police Department said Monday morning in an email to media.
Officers were dispatched to reports of gunshots in the 1700 block of Tennessee Street, where they found ...
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 137 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 ...
An incident that ended with a 17-year-old girl being shot with a gun began as a Roman candle war at a Lawrence apartment complex, court documents say.
The man accused of shooting the girl was an otherwise uninvolved neighbor — either fearful of or angered by the fireworks, depending on whether you ask his attorney or the state. His attorney has argued that the case should be dismissed because he shot in ...
When Erin Berg’s ex-boyfriend fatally shot her along a rural Lawrence road in 2017, the 36-year-old woman became a victim of the ultimate category of domestic violence: homicide.
Peter Sander, 41, went on to also shoot and kill their 3-year-old daughter, Mazey Berg, before killing himself.
Including this Douglas County case, domestic violence homicides went up more than 20 percent statewide in 2017, ...
