A section of 23rd Street was closed Friday afternoon following a trench collapse, Lawrence police said.Eastbound West 23rd Street, between Iowa Street and Naismith Drive, will be closed for an unknown period of time, police said.A construction project has been ongoing in the area for several ...
A University of Kansas law school effort helped free a wrongfully convicted man from prison this week.Richard Jones was released from prison on Thursday, after his robbery conviction was overturned in Johnson County District Court the previous day, according to a news release from the Midwest ...
Lawrence police are looking for victims of three people who have been arrested in connection with an apparent crime spree including two armed robberies and a disturbance with a gun that occurred Tuesday and Wednesday. Police said Thursday morning, in a tweet, that officers need help finding ...
Three suspects were taken into custody Wednesday afternoon after Lawrence police officers responded to three incidents reported to have involved firearms.According to a Lawrence Police Department press release, officers responded first at 5:37 p.m. to a report of an armed robbery in a ...
Improperly discarded smoking materials caused the fire Tuesday afternoon in a Crosswinds Apartments four-plex, investigators with Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical have determined.Fire Medical Division Chief Eve Tolefree said the fire at 1312 Crosswinds Court, near East 23rd Street and ...
The Lawrence police officer injured Tuesday morning while working at the scene of a car accident was released from Lawrence Memorial Hospital but has not return to duty.Lawrence Police Department spokesman Andrew Fennelly said the officer was released later Tuesday after receiving treatment but ...
Lawrence police officers said they helped subdue a patient Tuesday at Lawrence Memorial Hospital who was allegedly armed with a piece of glass from a window he broke.According to the Lawrence Police Department, officers were called to the hospital at 7:12 a.m. and found the male patient ...
The Lawrence Police Department is investigating an armed home invasion and burglary that occurred Tuesday in south Lawrence. According to police, about 11 p.m. Tuesday, three male suspects forced entry into a residence in the 1700 block of West 24th Street and left with property belonging to ...
After receiving 31 applications for the position of Lawrence police chief, the city has announced four finalists, all of whom hail from outside Lawrence.“Clearly, because the final group is all outsiders it’s going to bring in a different leadership to the community,” City Manager Tom ...
Six families were forced from their residences but were uninjured from a two-alarm fire Tuesday afternoon that caused heavy damage to a four-plex in the Crosswinds Apartments complex in eastern Lawrence.Lawrence/Douglas Fire Medical Division Chief Justin Temple said units were dispatched to a ...
A Lawrence police officer was injured while responding to a rollover accident Tuesday morning, and several lanes of West Sixth Street were closed while police investigated.The officer was injured at Sixth Street and Crestline Drive shortly before 11 a.m., police said in a news release. The ...
The attorneys for a Lawrence teenager convicted of murdering his grandmother in 2015 withdrew from his defense Monday, which was the day he was scheduled to be sentenced for that and other crimes.Citing the potential for a conflict of interest, Douglas County District Court Judge Kay Huff ...
A woman accused of picking a fight with a University of Kansas basketball player she was dating last winter must perform community service and take an alcohol class as a result.Saleeha Soofi, who had been charged with one count of battery, was granted a diversion in Douglas County District ...
The former custodian of a University of Kansas day care was convicted on Friday of stealing a classroom pet rabbit and leaving it to die.Shawn Witte Zuehlsdorf, 30, was arrested March 26 after he was accused of stealing the rabbit, named Carrots, pulling its tail off and abandoning it in a ...
The Douglas County District Attorney’s Office is seeking more testing in the case of a 16-year-old girl’s alleged rape at the University of Kansas men’s basketball dorm.“In our review of that case, we have requested some secondary testing from the Kansas Bureau of Investigation. We are ...
A former Lawrence group home's "house mother" will spend nearly a year in prison and pay thousands in restitution after stealing from children in her care.Through multiple cases spanning from 2015 to 2016 Jennifer Silva Guerrero, of Lawrence, was recently convicted of three felony theft ...
A Jefferson County sheriff's deputy has been arrested and will face criminal charges stemming from a reportedly violent incident last spring, according to a news release Thursday from Kirk Thompson, the director of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation.David Schmitt, 30, from Meriden, was arrested ...
Former Lawrence Mayor Jeremy Farmer is one step closer to being sentenced for his felony conviction of stealing from the food bank he led.On Thursday Farmer's case in federal court for the District of Kansas was updated to reflect that his pre-sentence investigation has been completed. The full ...
Brandon Keller and his mother drove to Baldwin City's Kwik Shop, 522 Ames St., Monday night to grab a drink and rent a movie. That's when they smelled something burning. Considering it was Memorial Day, Keller said he figured somebody was burning something, perhaps leaves. But as they left the ...
Things are back to normal at Lawrence Memorial Hospital after a bomb threat against the hospital was deemed not credible by police Tuesday. Janice Early, vice president of marketing and communications at LMH, said the hospital received the threat on a “non-network dedicated results printer” ...