A 15-year-old boy was taken to a Kansas City-area hospital after the dirt bike he was driving collided with an SUV just south of Lawrence. The crash happened shortly after 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the 1000 block of East 1000 Road, or County Road 458, and involved the dirt bike and a Buick Enclave, said Sgt. Kristen Channel of the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office. The Buick, driven by a 41-year-old Johnson ...
After being twice convicted, by two separate juries, of murdering his wife in 2004 in Lawrence, Martin K. Miller again appealed to the Kansas Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has again affirmed Miller’s conviction. The Supreme Court on Friday released its published decision in the case. According to an accompanying news release, while the majority of justices affirmed Miller’s conviction it was not ...
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 250 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 ...
Multiple days this summer in Lawrence, several joggers, bikers and a woman walking her dog all reported seeing a man exposing himself around the Kansas River trails. In one incident, he was sitting on a bench wearing lacy women’s panties. In another, he was totally nude, moving among the trees. One jogger said the man asked for the time, and when she looked back up after checking her phone he was exposing ...
The undersheriff for the operations division of the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office has retired. The retirement of Jim Martin, who was hired for the position in 2013, was announced Wednesday, Sgt. Kristen Channel, sheriff’s office spokeswoman, said in response to an inquiry from the Journal-World. Prior to joining the sheriff’s office Martin was a patrol shift commander for the Lawrence Police ...
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 265 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 ...