The Lawrence Police Department serves one of the smaller “benchmark cities” in an annual report produced by the Overland Park Police Department, but it has one of the highest percentages of female officers, the report shows. The annual Benchmark Cities Survey, produced by staff of the ...
Two motorists were killed in separate accidents Friday in Leavenworth County. According to an online Kansas Highway Patrol accident report, Gary W. Story, 83, of Tonganoxie, was killed in a two-vehicle accident at 12:05 p.m. Friday at the intersection of U.S. Highway 24 and Stone Creek Drive ...
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 ...
The $80,000 settlement between the City of Lawrence and a Black driver who was shot by a rookie police officer after a traffic stop turned violent has been finalized. The driver, Akira Lewis, filed an excessive-force lawsuit in September 2019 against former Lawrence Police Officer Brindley ...
Members of Ellsworth County Fire and Rescue have credited a Lawrence woman and her friends with saving strangers’ lives from a fiery car crash. Makenzie Rodgers, 24, of Lawrence, was driving to Colorado for a vacation with her friends, Jacque Shorten, 23, and her husband Josh Shorten, 25, ...
A month into his prison sentence for four felonies, Lawrence developer Thomas Fritzel remains in federal prison despite his request for home confinement. However, it remains unclear whether his request to serve his sentence at his Lawrence home is still under review or has been denied. Bureau ...