The National Weather Service has issued a tornado watch and a flood watch for Douglas County. The tornado watch is in effect until 9 p.m. Friday for numerous counties in northeast Kansas. The Weather Service said that severe thunderstorms are possible across parts of north-central and ...
A man who was originally charged in the overdose death of a young Lawrence woman entered a no contest plea Friday to the lesser crime of distributing a controlled substance. The plea deal that Mason Duane Robinson, 28, cut with the Douglas County District Attorney’s Office also guaranteed ...
Updated at 4:11 p.m. Thursday, April 25, 2024 A Douglas County jury on Thursday acquitted a transient man of murdering a blind Lawrence resident last summer in downtown Lawrence. The defendant, Chadwick Potter, 35, had faced a second-degree murder charge in the bludgeoning death of David ...
A 37-year old Lawrence man was killed in a Wednesday afternoon vehicle crash near the intersection of 31st and Louisiana streets in Lawrence, the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office has announced. Michael Landsness died from injuries that resulted from a crash involving his 2008 Kia Sportage ...
One person is dead after a head-on crash near the intersection of 31st and Louisiana streets on Wednesday afternoon, according to the Douglas County Sheriff's Office. Sheriff's office spokesman George Diepenbrock said in an email that the crash occurred just before 1 p.m. Wednesday just east ...
Story updated at 5:45 p.m. Wednesday, April 24: A transient man accused of beating a blind man to death in downtown Lawrence told police that he and the man peacefully smoked marijuana together on a July night last year and that he then left the man alive and well near the Kansas River bridge ...