A 22-year-old Eudora man was sentenced on Thursday to 14 months in prison, suspended to probation, for threatening a group of teenagers who were visiting Lawrence from Franklin County last spring.
The teens testified at an October preliminary hearing for defendant Corey Newman that Newman, who appeared to be intoxicated, had pulled a gun and pointed it at them late at night as they sat in a car in downtown ...
Updated at 10 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025
A high-speed chase in North Lawrence on Thursday afternoon ended with a motorcycle on fire, one person being loaded into an ambulance with serious injuries and another person in handcuffs.
A Kansas Highway Patrol trooper was chasing two people on a motorcycle heading south on North Second Street toward downtown Lawrence at high speed and with lights and sirens on, ...
Updated at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 27
A Douglas County judge on Thursday sentenced a former Lawrence Community Shelter resident to 57 months in prison in the strangulation death of another shelter resident last summer.
But before Judge Amy Hanley announced her sentence, defendant George Miller — crying and at times unable to speak about the drunken attack that killed his "best friend" — addressed the ...
A Lawrence police lieutenant has been charged in Shawnee County with one count of misdemeanor battery over an alleged incident at a basketball game.
Charging documents filed on Feb. 7 indicate that Lt. Myrone Grady, the Lawrence Police Department’s executive officer for diversity and community engagement, is accused of battery on another man on Jan. 27 in Shawnee County.
According to a motion to dismiss ...
A Lawrence man whom a jury acquitted three months ago of attempting to murder his pregnant wife is facing new allegations of domestic violence.
Dustin Ian Lane, 39, was charged Monday in Douglas County District Court with felony criminal threat, misdemeanor criminal restraint and misdemeanor violation of a protective order, all involving the same alleged victim and occurring on Saturday.
Lawrence police, who ...
If you see the snowy white head of a bald eagle soaring over the Kansas River, you are looking at an elite survivor, or nature’s equivalent of an Olympic athlete, as eagle expert Scott Mehus puts it.
That’s because bald eagles don’t get their signature white plumage until they’re 5 or 6 years old, and if they’ve made it that far they’ve beaten tremendous odds, considering that 70% to 80% die before ...
