With the return of university students for the start of the fall semester, the Lawrence Police Department will be stepping up its presence in downtown Lawrence and the area around the University of Kansas campus, according to a news release from the department. The police department said in ...
The landmark defeat of an anti-abortion amendment to the Kansas Constitution drew international attention. It left abortion rights forces thrilled and their opponents in despair. But it wasn’t the first Kansas fight over the polarizing social issue, and it’s far from the last. Activists ...
City leaders will soon consider a proposal to raise the typical city utility bill to $145 per month over a period of three years. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will provide city staff direction on a proposal to increase water and sewer rates by 8.75% in 2023, ...
Remains that were found south of Lawrence in January 2022 belonged to a man who went missing shortly after being released from jail in July 2021, according to the Douglas County Sheriff's Office. In a news release Friday, the sheriff’s office said the remains belonged to 47-year old Guy ...
A Douglas County jury convicted a man on Friday on two counts of attempted murder and multiple other charges for a shooting that occurred in 2020. Charles Darnell Thomas II, 37, was facing four counts of attempted second-degree murder, three felony counts of aggravated battery, and three ...
A Douglas County jury has convicted a man of one child sex crime count in a case where two girls said he abused them more than a decade ago when they were in preschool and kindergarten. Kenneth Wilson Mills, 35, of De Soto, was convicted of one count of aggravated sodomy of a child on Friday ...
