Updated at 11:27 a.m. Friday, Oct. 25 A woman was arrested Thursday evening in East Lawrence on suspicion of beating another woman with a baseball bat. Lawrence police were called shortly after 7 p.m. to the 800 block of Delaware Street, where three unhoused women had apparently set up a camp ...
A woman who formerly lived in Lawrence is accusing a man she met through a dating app of secretly filming their sexual activity and later sending the footage anonymously to her boyfriend. The man, Garrett Christopher Lynch, of Kansas City, Missouri, is now facing a felony count of breach of ...
Early Wednesday morning, firefighters extinguished flames in the large cellular tower on Vermont Street in downtown Lawrence. The Journal-World inquired about the incident Wednesday but did not receive a reply from Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical until Thursday afternoon. LDCFM said ...
The Douglas County Criminal Justice Coordinating Council is seeking the community’s input on how to improve the criminal legal system. A survey will be open until 5 p.m. on Nov. 4. By providing input, residents can help ensure that the CJCC’s strategic plan focuses on areas that matter ...
A Douglas County judge on Wednesday sentenced a 38-year-old Lawrence man to more than five years in prison for electronic solicitation of a child. Judge Amy Hanley announced the 66-month prison term after hearing from the mother of an 11-year-old victim, who said that the defendant, John Grant ...
A Lawrence teen accused of shooting another teen to death in June pleaded not guilty Wednesday to first-degree murder, and the court scheduled his trial to begin on Jan. 27. The defendant, Cir Allen Keith Glover, 19, is accused of killing Isaiah Neal, 17, on June 13 outside of Neal's home, as ...