Storms that rolled through Douglas County early Tuesday morning produced lightning strikes that caused one house fire in Lawrence, local officials announced Wednesday. The fire in the 100 block of Lawrence Avenue was not large enough that the residents of the house were displaced, nor were ...
A scammer is using Lawrence Police Department details to try to trick people out of money, the department said Tuesday. In a Facebook post Tuesday evening, LPD said two separate people walked into police headquarters and said they had been called by an officer saying they had a warrant on them ...
Recently retired Douglas County District Judge Sally Pokorny on Friday will share some insights with the public regarding her long legal career and important issues facing the state. The Lawrence/Douglas County Chapter of Women for Kansas is hosting the event, which it calls a conversation ...
As a damaging storm powered through Douglas County early Tuesday morning, residents may have heard the blare of tornado sirens amid the thunderclaps, but county officials said it is crucial to have other ways of being notified of severe weather. The warnings came shortly after midnight when ...
A trial for a Lawrence activist accused of interfering with law enforcement in 2023 now has the narrowest of windows to proceed, or else it could be dismissed due to the state’s speedy trial guarantees. A Douglas County District Court judge on Tuesday refused to dismiss the case against ...
UPDATED 12:20 P.M. JUNE 9 A middle-of-the-night storm caused tornado sirens to blare and sleepy residents to scurry, while damaging both properties and trees in various parts of Lawrence. What the storm — which first responders said did not produce any known injuries — didn’t produce ...