A man who is alleged to have facilitated a series of burglaries in Lawrence was convicted Tuesday in Douglas County District Court. True J. Shipley, 21, pleaded no contest to three counts of robbery, midlevel-severity felonies, Cheryl Wright Kunard, assistant to the Douglas County district ...
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. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Monday to 6 a.m. Tuesday and includes 188 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
Drivers traveling to and from Lawrence via the Kansas Turnpike may need to adjust their plans Tuesday night. The interchange at mile marker 202 on Interstate 70 will be inaccessible to drivers Tuesday night, the Kansas Turnpike Authority announced in a press release distributed Tuesday ...
Updated at 9:15 a.m. Tuesday A former University of Kansas track and field athlete who was part of the U.S. Olympic team for the 2012 games in London was arrested in Lawrence early Tuesday morning. Diamond B. Dixon, 27, was arrested around 1 a.m. in the 1400 block of Massachusetts Street on ...
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. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Sunday to 6 a.m. Monday and includes 164 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
When a Gardner man reported to a Douglas County Sheriff’s Office deputy that his truck had been stolen, parts of the story didn’t add up, according to court documents. The deputy later concluded that the man had falsely reported the truck stolen in an attempt to avoid drunken driving ...
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. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Saturday to 6 a.m. Sunday and includes 180 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
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. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Friday to 6 a.m. Saturday and includes 183 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
Two women and an 8-month-old boy were killed early Friday evening in a crash on U.S. Highway 59 that shut down lanes of traffic south of Lawrence for more than five hours. The crash occurred around 5:40 p.m. Friday near mile marker 151.1, about 2.5 miles south of Lawrence, according to a crash ...
Members of the Islamic Center of Lawrence had just visited in droves to celebrate Eid al-Adha the weekend prior to a burglary on Aug. 13, according to court documents. So a leader of the center told police he thought that between $1,000 and $2,000 worth of cash donations had likely been ...
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. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Thursday to 6 a.m. Friday and includes 194 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
After pointing a revolver at a driver on a major Lawrence street, court documents allege, a man and a woman holed up inside an apartment, telling police, “We ain’t coming out.” Chandler Allen Grey, 27, and Domonique Calvian Edwards, 22, of Lawrence, were arrested late the evening 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. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Wednesday to 6 a.m. Thursday and includes 235 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
A 52-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of arson Tuesday morning after first responders were called to smoldering barricades in downtown Lawrence. Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical responded to the call at 1047 Massachusetts St. at 4:47 a.m. Tuesday, Division Chief of Administration Tom ...
Eleven organizations in Douglas County failed state health code inspections in September. Each month, I take a look at inspection results and list every place either listed out of compliance or with 10 or more code violations. Full reports are available online at agriculture.ks.gov. There, ...
A Lawrence man who had faced a charge of attempted second-degree murder was sentenced Wednesday to 68 months — five years and eight months — in prison, after pleading no contest to lesser charges. Alfred Dewayne Sanders, 47, pleaded no contest on Sept. 4 to six felonies: three counts 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. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Tuesday to 6 a.m. Wednesday and includes 184 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
Story updated at 5:46 p.m. Oct. 9, 2019: A 30-year-old Lawrence man reportedly attempted to stab his neighbor with a butter knife, according to police. Officers responded to the 2500 block of West Sixth Street around 12:43 a.m. Wednesday for a disturbance with weapons call, Sgt. Amy Rhoads, ...
Two female University of Kansas students reported a man exposing himself and masturbating on campus, according to a news release from KU police. The women reported the incident at 1 a.m. Tuesday, according to the release. The alleged incident occurred on the sidewalk between Hashinger and ...
A man reportedly sneaked into a woman’s house and hid in the basement for hours, and when she discovered him there, he attacked her, according to court documents. Raju Tamang, 30, of Lawrence, was arrested at 11:05 p.m. Friday, Sept. 13, at a home in west Lawrence. He was charged the ...