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. Monday to 6 a.m. Tuesday and includes 243 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 ...
Calling the attorney “incompetent to try this case,” a judge has filed a scathing order barring a lawyer from representing the man accused of murdering three people on Massachusetts Street. Douglas County District Court Judge Sally Pokorny discharged Topeka-based attorney Jennifer Chaffee on Monday, citing a laundry list of missteps — culminating with causing a mistrial four days into jury selection in ...
A man has been arrested and charged in an armed robbery reported at a Lawrence laundromat last year. Andre R. Brown, 29, of Lawrence, was taken into custody at the Shawnee County Jail and booked into the Douglas County Jail Friday on the robbery charges, according to jail records. The robbery was reported to police just before 5:40 a.m. May 24, 2017, at Frank’s Corner Coin Laundry, 1215 W. Sixth St. ...
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 115 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 ...
UPDATED STORY - Nov. 20 — Haskell professor to temporarily take over as university’s president Haskell Indian Nations University glaringly underreported the number of crimes reported on its campus, including sexual assault, a federal investigation found. The school’s federally mandated annual campus security report, known as the Clery Report, should have listed 19 crimes reported in 2014, instead of ...
An investigation by the U.S. Department of the Interior Office of Inspector General has determined that complaints of nepotism by Haskell Indian Nations University President Venida Chenault are unfounded. The DOI OIG investigation into allegations of nepotism and other misconduct at Haskell has been open more than two years, and the report summarizing conclusions was just made public in recent days. The ...