A Lawrence teenager was sentenced to six months of probation Friday morning after he was convicted in September for bringing a loaded handgun to Free State High School in his backpack last spring. The 18-year-old was 17 when the incident occurred, and he was charged as a juvenile in Douglas ...
Story updated: 5:47 p.m. Friday, Nov. 9, 2018 What was supposed to have been a single trial that would have been over in two weeks has now turned into three trials that will take until late April to resolve. After abruptly declaring a mistrial in the downtown Lawrence triple murder case ...
UPDATED STORY: 10:52 a.m. Friday - Each defendant in downtown triple murder case will now have his own trial Story updated 8:26 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018: In the middle of the voir dire process while the lead defendant’s attorney was questioning potential jurors, a judge declared ...
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. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Wednesday to 6 a.m. Thursday and includes 170 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
Gun-wielding suspects reportedly invaded a home and robbed two people inside Wednesday night in Lawrence’s Oread Neighborhood. Police were dispatched about 9:40 p.m. to a robbery in the 1500 block of Kentucky Street, Officer Shawn Gross of the Lawrence Police Department said in an email to ...
The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office is looking for a man with outstanding warrants and has asked for the public’s help to find him. The sheriff’s office is trying to locate Michael “Mike” Oleson, who has Douglas County warrants for failing to comply with court orders in battery, ...
After a third full day of jury selection, no jury had been chosen to hear the downtown Lawrence triple murder trial. Attorneys were still questioning potential jurors, an unusually slow process due to the unprecedented number of potential jurors rounded up for the high-profile case. Everyone ...
In a case particularly “fraught with emotion,” his attorney said, a Lawrence man was sentenced Wednesday in connection with his own young daughter’s shooting death. Douglas County District Court Judge Paula Martin granted a one-year probation for Chance M. Smith, 33. Noting Smith had ...
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. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Tuesday to 6 a.m. Wednesday and includes 198 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
Law enforcement arrested three Kansas City, Mo., men on Interstate 35 Tuesday night after they allegedly committed a violent crime in Baldwin City. An armed home-invasion robbery was reported about 7:20 p.m. in the 100 block of Santa Fe Drive, Baldwin City interim police chief Mike Pattrick ...
A Lawrence man has been arrested on rape charges in connection with an incident that occurred last year. Erick W. Ogwangi, 33, was booked into the Douglas County Jail and released after posting $30,000 bond on Wednesday, jail records indicate. He is charged with one count of rape, a felony, ...
A man allegedly seen touching himself while driving around the University of Kansas campus this summer — multiple times in a two-day span — has been arrested. Campus wasn’t the only place he struck those days, either, court documents allege. David D. Schumock, 27, of Lawrence, is ...
Someone shot up a vehicle in North Lawrence early Wednesday morning, hitting the nearby garage, too, police say. Initial gunshot reports came from the 700 blocks of Lake and Hickory streets about 1:40 a.m., according to an email from Officer Shawn Gross of the Lawrence Police Department. ...
After a second full day of jury selection, a panel still hadn’t been picked to decide the downtown Lawrence triple murder case. Potential jurors were asked to return to the courthouse Wednesday morning to continue the process. The group of roughly 170 potential jurors summoned Monday ...
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. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Monday to 6 a.m. Tuesday and includes 210 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
One of four women who tried to steal thousands of dollars worth of blue jeans from a downtown Lawrence shop will do prison time for the crime. However — in part because the woman is the mother of three small children, including an infant — a judge granted her special request for a shorter ...
Honestly, who steals a lizard? Allegedly, three out-of-county visitors to Pet World in Lawrence. Clearwater, a bearded dragon lizard who is rehabilitating at the pet store, was allegedly abducted by a woman and two accomplices who were recently eyeing the lizard for some time in the store, ...
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. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Sunday to 6 a.m. Monday and includes 157 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
Story updated at 5:45 p.m. Monday, Nov. 5, 2018. Close to 170 potential jurors flowed into the Douglas County District Courthouse Monday morning, kicking off the court’s largest jury selection operation in recent history, if ever. The group will be carved down to a panel of 12 jurors to ...
Multiple people reported hearing yelling and gunshots Sunday night in the 2500 block of West Sixth Street. Police checked it out and found spent shell casings and rounds of ammunition in the parking lot of the Country Club on 6th apartments, but no one reported being injured or having ...