A 34-year-old Baldwin City woman was arrested Sunday after allegedly assaulting a police officer with a rock and barricading herself inside a residence.
The officer responded to a domestic violence call just after 9 a.m. Sunday in the 200 block of Eisenhower Street, according to a news release from Baldwin City Police Chief Mike Pattrick.
The suspect reportedly threw a large rock at the responding officer and ...
Updated at 11 a.m. Monday, April 27
A 30-year-old man who was accused of stabbing another man outside a Lawrence restaurant two years ago was sentenced on Monday to 12 months in prison, suspended to 24 months of probation.
The defendant, Edgar Oropeza Diaz, was originally charged with aggravated battery as a level 4 person felony but pleaded no contest in March to a less serious level 7 person felony. With ...
Multiple fire department trucks responded just after noon Monday to an incident at Warren-McElwain Mortuary.
Battalion Chief Aaron Flory said Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical units were called to a structure fire at the funeral home, 120 W. 13th St., but when they arrived they detected only an odor of smoke inside the building and located a seized motor on an HVAC handler on the roof, which was evidently ...
A woman who scheduled a massage at a Baldwin City yoga studio, hoping to get some relief from lower back pain, instead became the victim of a sexual assault at the hands of a male massage therapist, according to allegations in a recently released arrest affidavit.
The woman's report of the incident to police prompted more than half a dozen other women to quickly come forward with similar stories of what they ...
A retired Lawrence police officer who was recently convicted of disorderly conduct in Shawnee County has been reprimanded by the Kansas Commission on Peace Officers' Standards and Training but has not lost his certification to be a law enforcement officer in the state.
Former Lt. Myrone Grady received the news Wednesday and said he felt "relief" that no action beyond a reprimand was taken. He told the ...
If Eliseo Munoz had been charged with a third DUI back in the spring of 2024, when he was reportedly driving with three times the legal limit of alcohol in his bloodstream, local actor Louise ImMasche might be alive today.
The failure to pursue the DUI charge was a “fatal mistake” by the previous administration in the Douglas County District Attorney’s Office, according to the current DA, Dakota ...
