A suspect in an hourslong police incident Sunday was still at large Monday, after a lengthy pursuit through downtown Lawrence and a manhunt kept an East Lawrence neighborhood on edge.
Dozens of law enforcement personnel from the Lawrence Police Department and the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office descended on the neighborhood around New York Elementary School on Sunday evening as they searched for a driver who ...
Updated at 9 a.m. Monday
A suspect in a police chase who fled on foot through an East Lawrence neighborhood Sunday evening is still at large, Lawrence police said Monday morning.
Police had few other details to provide, citing yet to be completed reports in the investigation, but did share this additional information Monday morning:
The pursuit began about 7 p.m. Sunday, when officers were dispatched to The ...
The Forrest Gump comparisons are legion but not altogether apt. For one, accomplished runner Stan Cottrell is not running across the country because he’s bereft. On the contrary, he’s downright bubbly.
For another, he’s not 38; he’s 78. He’s been running his whole life — about 270,000 miles total, he says — and he’s not likely to just one day tire of it and go home.
“Just because you reach a ...
Updated at 2:20 p.m. Wednesday
Multiple emergency vehicles responded Wednesday morning to a neighborhood in North Lawrence where a car had crashed into a house.
The incident occurred shortly before 9 a.m. at 602 Elm St., where a black SUV with broken windows could be seen lodged into the west side of the yellow bungalow-style house, with a home air-conditioning unit crumpled alongside.
An ambulance was seen ...
When Lawrence resident Robert Jackson found himself “pretty much homeless” last winter, he was thankful to find a local hotel that, through a city program, was providing shelter for homeless people.
But the warm room wasn’t exactly free. The price? He’d have to give up his dog to stay there.
The thought was unthinkable. Jackson’s dog Webster, a young Labrador/hound mix, had been his constant ...
A 31-year-old man was taken into police custody Friday morning after he allegedly shattered at least three windows in a downtown business.
The incident occurred around 8:30 a.m. at the southeast corner of Eighth and Vermont streets, where the office of Paul Werner Architects is located. Multiple police vehicles responded to the scene, and officers were seen arresting a man and placing him in a police car. ...
