The Lawrence Police Department has doubled its downtown patrol team in preparation for the holiday season, expanding the team until the end of the year. The LPD has had a two-person dedicated downtown patrol team since 2024. Now, in preparation for the holiday traffic in downtown, there will ...
A Douglas County judge on Monday ordered a 32-year-old Lawrence massage parlor worker to stand trial on one count of rape after a 19-year-old university athlete testified that he sexually assaulted her during a massage last spring. The woman testified that she went to Lawrence Thai Massage, ...
A man was charged Friday with two felonies after he allegedly threatened armed violence at a Lawrence school. Johnny Owen Holloway, who will turn 63 on Sunday, was charged with aggravated criminal threat, a level 5 person felony, and criminal threat, a level 9 person felony. The charging ...
Douglas County's Public Defender Office is asking a judge to throw out a jury's verdict convicting a Lawrence man of two child sex crimes. The defense attorneys — Jessica Glendening and Allyson Monson — are arguing that statements made by the prosecutor during jury selection and closing ...
A Douglas County jury has found a 74-year-old landlord guilty of multiple sex crimes against children who lived at his Lawrence properties. Mark Duane Strand was convicted Thursday of five counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child, three counts of rape, one count of attempted ...
Story updated at 2:41 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 5, 2026. The Lawrence school district briefly placed all of its school buildings on a lockout Thursday afternoon on the advice of the Lawrence Police Department after a "credible threat involving a mental health concern with an individual in the ...