It’s not clear how far back the “systemic conduct problems” spurring the sweeping crackdown of University of Kansas fraternities have been happening or exactly what kind of problems they are. Neither KU’s Interfraternity Council — which ordered the suspension of all its member ...
A University of Kansas football player was arrested on suspicion of DUI over the weekend in Lawrence. Chase W. Harrell, 21, was booked into jail early Sunday morning after being arrested on suspicion of DUI near Sixth and Kentucky streets, according to jail records. Harrell also had failed to ...
Two University of Kansas students were arrested Sunday by campus police on suspicion of distributing drugs, jail records show.A 20-year-old man arrested on suspicion of distributing hallucinogens and paraphernalia was jailed on $21,500 bond and remained in custody Monday morning, according to ...
Tonganoxie ? Tiffany Parker had been pitching an idea to others in the Tonganoxie school district that might help protect students in the event of an active shooter.A few days later, the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., which killed 17, shook the nation.Since ...
The Douglas County District Attorney’s Office granted a higher percentage of criminal diversions in 2017 than it did the previous year, according to numbers the office recently released, but the number of people receiving the break did hit a three-year low. In 2017, the number of diversions ...
A Lawrence couple has been charged in Douglas County District Court with multiple counts of distributing methamphetamine. According to the district attorney’s office, Brian N. McCoy and Naomi L. Byers were charged with five felony counts each and made their first appearances in court in their ...
An 11-year-old was treated Thursday evening in Lawrence for what’s believed to be an accidental shooting by a sibling with a rifle, authorities said. Douglas County sheriff’s deputies were dispatched shortly after 6:30 p.m. March 8 on a report of a shooting that had occurred in the 600 ...
Investigators have learned more about the circumstances of Thursday’s shooting on Graystone Drive. The victim had come home and interrupted a midday burglary at his apartment, Officer Derrick Smith of the Lawrence Police Department said Friday in an email response to questions from the ...
One of three defendants in the Sept. 2, 2017, homicide at Motel 6 was shot himself during the incident. He went to the emergency room at the University of Kansas hospital in Kansas City, Kan., and — per protocol for walk-in gunshot victims — hospital staff notified police there. Tyrone J. ...
A man was shot Thursday afternoon at a Lawrence apartment complex, police said. The shooting was reported just before 12:20 p.m. inside an apartment in the 400 block of Graystone Drive, said Officer Derrick Smith of the Lawrence Police Department. The victim, a 19-year-old man, suffered a ...
A judge has ordered a Lawrence man to stand trial on an involuntary manslaughter charge, after hearing a witness describe the apparently accidental shooting and the defendant’s reluctance to turn himself in afterward.Douglas County District Court Judge Peggy Kittel presided over a preliminary ...
For 17 minutes starting at 10 a.m. on March 14, students, teachers and their supporters across the country will stage walkouts to honor the 17 victims of last month’s Parkland, Fla., shooting and to protest gun violence. Chisato Kimura, a senior at Lawrence High School, plans to be among ...
Hispanic victims of an alleged attempted murder by a black man told police that comments about their race made them fear the suspect, who had wielded a gun during a confrontation with them at a bar, an affidavit says. Two men and a woman were driving on Iowa Street near Bob Billings Parkway ...
The same day he was booked into jail on charges of sexually assaulting a Lawrence massage parlor worker, Robert J. Gross posted bond.In the weeks that followed, federal authorities say, Gross began purchasing handcuffs, ski masks, black shirts labeled with “SECURITY,” and guns.Federal ...
Earlier this month, the Journal-World published a story revealing some perceptions from Lawrence’s young people and bar-going crowd regarding crime in the city’s nightlife scene. Namely, folks in their twenties hailing from nearby communities described Lawrence as a magnet for those looking ...
Thursday’s grass fire south of Lawrence left at least one Douglas County resident with significant property damage. It’s the second time in just more than a month that an out-of-control brush fire in the same vicinity has burned up acres of his land.Phil Bradley, who lives across the road ...
The number of crimes reported on the University of Kansas campus went down notably from 2016 to 2017, university police announced Friday. Overall, crime decreased 13 percent, with 671 criminal offenses reported to KU police in 2017 compared to 770 incidents in 2016, according to a news release ...
Fire crews were battling a grass fire Thursday afternoon south of Lawrence, near Wells Overlook Park.The fire started as a controlled burn in the 1300 block of North 1100 Road and got out of control, according to emergency dispatchers. It was reported about 3:40 p.m.Fire crews were still on the ...
A Lawrence judge is scheduled to make a guest appearance on the Kansas Supreme Court next week.Chief Judge Peggy Carr Kittel of the 7th Judicial District in Douglas County has been appointed to sit with the Kansas Supreme Court to hear oral arguments in one case on the court's March 6 docket, ...
A man who was accused of making and selling illegal fireworks in Eudora has been sentenced to probation in the case.Dylan T. Curry, 26, of Eudora, must spend 18 months on probation, Douglas County District Court Judge Sally Pokorny ruled Wednesday. His underlying sentence, should he fail to ...