"If it wasn't for the concrete pillar that stopped the car," Joe Whalen doubts that he'd be here today, he told a Douglas County jury Monday.
Whalen and two others — his daughter and her college roommate — were dining at a corner table at Big Mill restaurant on Ninth Street on Nov. 4, 2022. Whalen had driven down from Chicago to celebrate KU's Dads Weekend with his freshman daughter. As the trio and two ...
A mom who lost her 29-year-old son to suicide in Lawrence last year is asking people to perform acts of kindness on the upcoming anniversary of his death.
Gayla Kelly's only son, Logan Zane, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound sometime between Feb. 19, when he wrote a suicide note, and Feb. 25, when his body was discovered in a wooded area near the Kansas River.
"That was a week of pure hell that began this ...
A Lawrence woman who was accused of stealing money from a resident in an elder care facility was given probation Wednesday in Douglas County District Court and was ordered to repay her victim.
Honesty Trussell — originally charged with felony mistreatment of a dependent adult or elder person and felony theft — pleaded no contest in December 2024, as part of a deal with the state, to a single felony count of ...
The Lawrence Police Department is continuing its investigation in the case of a City of Lawrence bus driver who was arrested last weekend for allegedly threatening to use a Taser on the bus.
As the Journal-World reported, the bus driver was arrested on suspicion of aggravated assault after a caller and other bus riders indicated that the bus driver had threatened them with a Taser. The incident allegedly ...
Updated at 5:20 p.m. Monday, Jan. 27
A Lawrence bus driver was arrested Saturday after bus riders said she threatened them with a Taser, according to Lawrence police.
Police were called to the Lawrence Community Shelter, 3655 E. 25th St., just before 1 p.m. Saturday. The person who called, and others who rode the bus to the stop nearby, indicated that the bus driver had threatened them with a Taser, said LPD ...
The Lawrence School Board meeting on Monday was disrupted by three adults who insisted on reading obscenities and sexually explicit material to board members and the listening public, in apparent protest of the board’s new policy that asks commenters to refrain from using foul and obscene language, in part because students may be watching the meetings.
During a chaotic few minutes, commenters read from books ...
