More than $10 million in federal funding will be allocated to community-based organizations and local and state agencies providing services directly to crime victims and survivors, including about $340,000 to Douglas County, Gov. Laura Kelly's office announced Wednesday. The funding comes ...
A 22-year-old Lawrence woman's arm was injured after she was struck by a pickup truck near downtown Lawrence on Tuesday, according to Lawrence police. Sgt. Drew Fennelly said in an email to the Journal-World that an 81-year-old man was driving a 2016 Chevy Silverado around 2:50 p.m. on Eighth ...
TOPEKA — The director of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation is proposing a new $114.4 million headquarters facility in Topeka to replace administrative buildings that subjected employees to fire-safety dangers and security threats from "homeless people and drug addicts." Tony Mattivi, ...
A Lawrence man was charged on Tuesday after he allegedly threatened a woman with a gun and broke the peephole on the door of her apartment. The man, Greyson Wesley Marsh, 24, is charged in Douglas County District Court with one felony count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and one ...
A woman testified on Monday that she feared for her and her child’s life during an armed residential robbery that happened in 2022. Two men were charged in the case shortly after it happened at a house on June 30, 2022, in the 3000 block of Bainbridge Circle. One, Chester Wendell Brockman, ...
A 20-year-old Lansing man has been convicted in the fentanyl overdose death of a teen who used Snapchat to obtain the drug. During a plea hearing on Friday, Torin Michael Baughman pleaded guilty to a single count of distribution of a controlled substance causing death. The conviction relates ...