Story updated 5:52 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2018:
A Lawrence man who has been jailed over a year awaiting trial on a murder charge has picked up another new charge from an old incident.
Steven A. Drake III, 21, was charged this week with vehicular homicide in connection with a deadly crash on Nov. 6, 2016, just north of Clinton Lake. Taylor B. Lister, 24, of Lecompton, was killed in the crash.
Drake allegedly ...
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. Tuesday to 6 a.m. Wednesday and includes 209 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 ...
For the second year, Lawrence’s Gingerbread Festival & Auction will be spread over two weekends instead of just one — enabling ample opportunity to view the exquisite sugary creations and participate in a festive auction for them.
The annual festival, a Lawrence tradition for more than 20 years, features a gingerbread house competition and an auction of the winning entries. The auction raises money for ...
A recent Bizarre Bazaar social media post touts that the pictured handmade item, among designs to be for sale at the event, is something “you won’t come across in stores.”
That’s a signature of this annual only-in-Lawrence holiday shopping event — and antithesis to Black Friday at the big box stores. Bizarre Bazaar is scheduled for, as always, the Friday and Saturday after Thanksgiving inside the ...
Police arrested a man who allegedly stabbed a friend overnight in Lawrence’s Oread neighborhood.
Police were dispatched about 2:20 a.m. Wednesday to a disturbance with weapons in the 1300 block of Ohio Street, according to Officer Derrick Smith of the Lawrence Police Department.
There had reportedly been a physical altercation between two friends, during which the suspect stabbed the victim with a knife, ...
Haskell Indian Nations University President Venida Chenault will be temporarily handing over the office of president to longtime Haskell professor and administrator Daniel Wildcat, the Journal-World learned Tuesday. The change comes just days after a federal report detailed allegations of misconduct at the university.
Tony Dearman, director of the Bureau of Indian Education, said Wildcat would serve as acting ...
