Candidates for Douglas County district attorney participated in an online forum Thursday evening that specifically focused on issues of concern to Black people, Indigenous people and people of color as well as the LGBTQIA community. During the 90-minute forum, the three Democratic candidates ...
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 ...
Story updated at 1:19 p.m. Thursday: Police arrested a 35-year-old Lawrence man late Wednesday on suspicion of five counts of attempted first-degree murder, according to the Douglas County Jail booking log. Lawrence police were dispatched to a reported shooting around 11 p.m. Wednesday in ...
Douglas County Republican leaders will soon select a new sheriff to finish out the term of recently retired Sheriff Ken McGovern. Republican precinct committee members of Douglas County will hold a convention on Friday to nominate and vote to appoint a sheriff. Douglas County Clerk Jamie Shew ...
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 ...
Updated at 4:29 p.m. Wednesday: Candidates for Douglas County sheriff and district attorney will participate in online forums this week and next that focus on issues that underrepresented populations face. DA candidates Cooper Overstreet, Suzanne Valdez and incumbent Charles Branson will ...
No Douglas County organizations failed health code inspections in June. That is partly because only four locations were subjected to the state's in-person inspections. All four of the locations are part of the Lawrence school district's summer meal service program. Three City of Lawrence ...
City leaders have committed to a public review of the Lawrence Police Department’s use-of-force policies, with some emphasizing that the review would be just one piece of a larger evaluation. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission voted unanimously to adopt a ...
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 ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A former police officer was sentenced Tuesday to four months in jail for causing a 2018 wreck that killed a Kansas teenager and injured two others outside the stadium where the Kansas City Chiefs play. Thirty-five-year-old Terrell Watkins pleaded guilty in early June to ...
Just short of four months before an overwhelming majority of the Lawrence police union voted that they had no confidence in their chief, union leaders had given him a letter detailing their pressing concerns, records show. Among them, the union’s executive board listed staffing shortages ...
Updated at 5:37 p.m. Monday City leaders will soon consider whether to commit to a public review of the Lawrence Police Department’s use-of-force policies, including the department’s policies regarding deadly force. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will ...
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 ...
Some changes to procedures in Douglas County District Court are expected to increase efficiency for criminal defense attorneys and their clients, according to Chief Judge James McCabria. The changes will also be positive for the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office deputies who handle security ...
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 ...
Douglas County voters will soon decide many local political races, but registered Republicans will have no voice in many outcomes. That’s because all but one of the county seats that are up for election this year will likely be decided through Democratic primary elections, and the deadline ...
Story updated at 6:23 p.m. Thursday: A protest that had occupied Massachusetts Street since Saturday evening had almost entirely cleared out by Thursday afternoon. Around 3:30 p.m. Thursday, roughly 20 people remained in the northern portion of the strip of Massachusetts Street that the City ...
Work will begin soon on a project to address safety issues and congestion on a troubled intersection of the South Lawrence Trafficway. Starting Monday, the first phase of improvements to the intersection where the trafficway meets 27th Street and Wakarusa Drive will begin, according to an ...