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, ...
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 ...
A shooting Wednesday that left a 23-year-old Lawrence man in critical condition was "for all intents and purposes an accident" about which the suspect in the case "feels terrible," a defense attorney told a Douglas County judge Friday afternoon while attempting, unsuccessfully, to secure an own-recognizance bond for his client. The two are friends, and "there is no animosity" between the injured man and ...
The sudden loss of nearly a third of its workforce has shaken up the Haskell Indian Nations University campus, creating confusion and uncertainty about the school's future, and federal lawmakers who once seemed invested in "fixing" Haskell have said little about the situation. Among the concerns is what will happen to the academic courses that were taught by seven instructors before they were fired on Friday ...