Updated at 3:08 p.m. Wednesday, July 30
Westbound traffic on Interstate 70 near the North Lawrence exit was backed up for hours Wednesday after a semitrailer went off the road and began leaking molten sulfur.
Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical was dispatched to westbound Kansas Turnpike mile marker 205 at 9:59 a.m., according to spokesperson McKenzi Ezell.
Prior to units arriving on the scene, callers ...
Updated at 7:48 p.m. Monday, July 28
A man who is on diversion in a 2024 case of drunk driving and fleeing police was arrested again Sunday on suspicion of DUI and aggravated battery.
Kody Charles Rothfus, 33, was charged Monday with the two new offenses. The charging document alleges that his blood alcohol level was .209, more than twice the legal limit of .08, and that while driving drunk he caused great ...
A Topeka man who was convicted of rape in May after unsuccessfully arguing that he was asleep during the act and hence not responsible will now be sentenced in mid-September.
Reston Phillips, whom a jury convicted of raping a sleeping woman in Lawrence eight years ago, was scheduled to be sentenced on July 31, but he was granted a six-week continuance after his trial attorney, Joe Huerter, withdrew from the ...
Updated at 12:16 a.m. Friday, July 25
Police and emergency crews responded Friday morning to the northbound bridge of the Kansas River near downtown Lawrence after a woman was seen trespassing on the dam near the Bowersock power plant.
Multiple first-responder vehicles were on scene before 9 a.m. after someone reported seeing her in the hazardous area, and she was helped to safety about an hour later.
"The ...
Updated at 4:05 p.m. Thursday, July 24
A jury on Thursday found a man guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting death of a 39-year-old man last year in downtown Lawrence, rejecting the shooter's claim of self-defense.
Nicholas Beaver, 34, was accused of gunning down Vincent Lee Walker on March 6, 2024, in front of the Lawrence Public Library.
The jurors — eight women and four men — began deliberating ...
A speech pathologist accused of molesting multiple children last winter at a Lawrence elementary school is asking a judge to reduce his bond from $1.5 million to $100,000 cash or surety.
The defendant, 61-year-old Mark Gridley, has been in custody since Feb. 8, when he was accused of a sex crime against a Prairie Park Elementary student. Earlier this month, as expected, those charges were upgraded to include ...
