Local law enforcement and emergency response agencies plan to conduct a joint motorcade and traffic escort training day on Thursday, according to a news release from the Lawrence Police Department. Between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m., drivers throughout Lawrence will see a large training procession ...
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Democratic nominee Scott Colom defeated Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith on Wednesday in Mississippi's closely contested U.S. Senate race after a prolonged ballot counting process, giving the state its first Black U.S. senator since post-Civil War ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Firefighters dug through the rubble of a three-story building in Brooklyn on Wednesday after it collapsed at the edge of a construction site, killing at least one person and trapping others beneath the wreckage. Firefighters were called to the scene in the borough's Flatbush ...
A 43-year-old man is being held on a $1 million bond after being charged with sexually abusing two young girls in Douglas County, and his partner has signed a diversion agreement admitting that she knew about the abuse but told the girls to not tell anyone. According to allegations in a ...
To Bobbie Flory, the leader of the Lawrence Home Builders Association, the city’s plan to create a library of ready-to use housing designs with a fast-tracked approval process makes good sense. But there’s a caveat: It won’t help the city add new housing unless the designs are things ...
A massage therapist accused of multiple sex crimes against nearly a dozen women doesn't want jurors to hear potentially incriminating statements he made to police, but jurors likely will hear those statements after a Douglas County judge on Tuesday declined to suppress them. Attorneys for ...
