First responders have responded to the northbound bridge of the Kansas River near downtown Lawrence. Police cars, a fire truck and an ambulance were on scene around 9 a.m. Friday. It was unclear what was happening, but one person could be seen huddled on a concrete structure where the dam ...

A Lawrence man who was struck by a vehicle while bicycling on a road between Lawrence and Eudora has died from his injuries. The man was identified as Clayton L. Place, 30. According to Douglas County sheriff's spokesman George Diepenbrock, Place died from his injuries on Wednesday evening at ...

Updated at 4:05 p.m. Thursday, July 24 A jury on Thursday found a man guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting death of a 39-year-old man last year in downtown Lawrence, rejecting the shooter's claim of self-defense. Nicholas Beaver, 34, was accused of gunning down Vincent Lee Walker on ...

A speech pathologist accused of molesting multiple children last winter at a Lawrence elementary school is asking a judge to reduce his bond from $1.5 million to $100,000 cash or surety. The defendant, 61-year-old Mark Gridley, has been in custody since Feb. 8, when he was accused of a sex ...

A defendant accused of gunning down a man in broad daylight in front of the Lawrence Public Library told a jury that he did so because he was "terrified" after he said the man threatened to cut him up "in little bitty pieces." Though he maintained he acted in self-defense when he fatally fired ...

UPDATED 11:25 A.M. JULY 23 A 30-year old Lawrence man remains hospitalized on Wednesday after suffering life-threatening injuries when struck by a vehicle Tuesday evening while bicycling on a road between Lawrence and Eudora. A spokesman with the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office said ...