A 21-year-old Lawrence man was charged with aggravated domestic battery and abuse of a child on Thursday.
Seth A. Watkins, who is in the custody of the Douglas County Jail, was formally charged at his first appearance in Douglas County District Court. Both charges are felonies. He was also ...
WICHITA — Four men from Mississippi have been banned from hunting anywhere in the world and fined a total of $48,000 for violating wildlife laws in Kansas.
Kenneth R. Britt Jr., 51; Tony Grant Smith, 26; Barney Leon Bairfield III, 28; and Dustin Corey Treadway, 28, were also sentenced to ...
TOPEKA — A Manhattan woman was killed in a seven-vehicle crash that began when large metal pipes fell off a semitrailer on Interstate 70, the Kansas Highway Patrol said.
The patrol said pipes on a tractor-trailer driving east on the interstate in Topeka fell off and went over a barrier into ...
Former University of Kansas basketball player Silvio De Sousa has applied to go on diversion for a charge of aggravated battery, his attorney Hatem Chahine said Wednesday.
De Sousa appeared in Douglas County District Court on Wednesday with Chahine through an online video conference. Chahine ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours.
Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity up to 6 a.m. on the date listed and extending back to 6 a.m. on the previous day. Each listing includes a date, time and general ...
Attorneys defending Rontarus Washington Jr. against a murder charge have arranged for another expert to examine footwear evidence related to bloody footprints found at the crime scene.
Washington, 24, is charged with first-degree murder and aggravated burglary in connection with the November ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours.
Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity up to 6 a.m. on the date listed and extending back to 6 a.m. on the previous day. Each listing includes a date, time and general ...
Three Douglas County Sheriff’s Office vehicles were vandalized with graffiti late last week.
The sheriff’s office said in a social media post that the vehicles were marked with graffiti overnight between Thursday and Friday while parked at the Judicial and Law Enforcement Center, 1199 New ...
After eight months of research and discussion, the city’s police review board is asking residents what they think of the board’s proposed changes to increase oversight of police complaints.
The changes are meant to provide greater transparency and accountability in the handling of ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours.
Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity up to 6 a.m. on the date listed and extending back to 6 a.m. on the previous day. Each listing includes a date, time and general ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours.
Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity up to 6 a.m. on the date listed and extending back to 6 a.m. on the previous day. Each listing includes a date, time and general ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours.
Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity up to 6 a.m. on the date listed and extending back to 6 a.m. on the previous day. Each listing includes a date, time and general ...
Customers of the pharmacies at area Dillons grocery stores may have had some of their personal and medical data stolen as part of a security breach, the retailer announced Friday.
Dillons' parent company, The Kroger Co. said a software company it uses as part of its pharmacy operations had ...
Crews fought to contain a fire at a storage unit facility in western Lawrence on Friday afternoon.
Tom Fagan, division chief of administration, said Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical crews responded to a call at Space Saver Storage, 3707 W. Sixth St., for a fire in a storage unit. Once on ...
Defense attorneys for Rontarus Washington Jr. alleged at a hearing on Friday that witness tampering and other prosecutorial misconduct were so rife that the possibility of a fair trial for Washington was destroyed and that the murder case against him should be dismissed.
However, state ...
Emergency crews were battling a significant fire at a property in rural Douglas County Friday afternoon.
First responders were called to a structure fire in the 1900 block of North 1100 Road shortly after 1:30 p.m. Friday, according to emergency radio traffic monitored by the Journal-World. ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours.
Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity up to 6 a.m. on the date listed and extending back to 6 a.m. on the previous day. Each listing includes a date, time and general ...
A Lawrence man was taken to a hospital for an injury he suffered Thursday morning in a car wreck on Kansas Highway 10.
The man, Jason Wiegert, 37, was taken to Overland Park Regional Medical Center for a “suspected serious injury,” according to the Kansas Highway Patrol crash log. The ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours.
Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity up to 6 a.m. on the date listed and extending back to 6 a.m. on the previous day. Each listing includes a date, time and general ...
A Douglas County District Court judge has set a $1 million bond for a Lawrence man who is accused of murder.
Johnathon Lee West, 43, made his first appearance in court this week for a second-degree murder charge where the court set the cash or surety bond, Deputy District Attorney Joshua ...