Public Safety

Motorcyclist injured in U.S. 59 crash south of Lawrence

Updated at 5 p.m. Saturday, June 3 A motorcyclist was hospitalized after an accident Friday on U.S. Highway 59 south of Lawrence. In an email, Douglas County Sheriff's Office spokesman George Diepenbrock wrote that shorty after 2 p.m. Friday, a 76-year-old motorcyclist from Council Bluffs, ...

Police seek information on overnight homicide, help in identifying victim

The Lawrence Police Department is asking the public to help identify the victim of an early-morning homicide in west Lawrence as well as information on the crime. According to a post on the Lawrence Police Department's Facebook page, officers responded to reports of gunfire shortly after 1 ...