Story updated at 6:10 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 13: Lawrence high school administrators and the Lawrence Police Department were investigating a student’s report of a threatening Snapchat post Wednesday afternoon, the district said in a news release. A Free State High School student allegedly ...
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 187 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
An upcoming event is planned to help residents with convictions in Douglas County figure out if those convictions could be erased from their records. The “Clean Slate Expungement Clinic” will take place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday, Feb. 22, at Douglas County District Court, 111 E. 11th ...
A trial date has been set for University of Kansas star football player Pooka Williams, who faces a charge of domestic battery. On Wednesday in Douglas County District Court, Judge James T. George set Williams' trial for 9 a.m. June 3. The court had previously granted Williams a diversion in ...
The Lawrence school district announced that it will take some immediate actions in light of two students bringing guns to Lawrence High School within the span of a week — one on Wednesday, Feb. 6, and one on Tuesday. In an email to media late Tuesday evening, district spokeswoman Julie ...
A Lawrence man already facing multiple counts of sex crimes against a child — each carrying the possibility of life in prison — is now facing an additional count of equal severity. After listening to the victim testify at a preliminary hearing earlier this month, Douglas County District ...
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 165 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
A woman who owned two Lawrence massage parlors has admitted that she ran a prostitution business at the locations, federal officials have announced. Weiling Nielsen, 54, pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of conspiracy, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said in a news release. Nielsen ...
A man reportedly threatened to kill someone with a knife then drove off on a bicycle before being caught and arrested early Tuesday morning in Lawrence. Just after 4:10 a.m. Tuesday, Lawrence police headed to a disturbance with weapons reported in the 100 block of North Michigan Street, ...
Story last updated at 10:35 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 12: For the second time in the span of a week, a Lawrence High School student has allegedly brought a gun to school. In an email to LHS parents and a news release to local media, district spokeswoman Julie Boyle wrote, “Acting on a tip that a ...
A Lawrence man has been convicted in the repeated stabbing of his roommate at their home on Oak Hill Avenue in 2016. Wynn S. A. Anderson, 39, pleaded no contest to attempted aggravated battery, a felony, according to Dorothy Kliem, trial assistant with the Douglas County District Attorney’s ...
Lawrence police arrested a man over the weekend after a bicycle chase that lasted several blocks. Officers spotted the bicyclist — a man they knew had multiple active arrest warrants — shortly after 1:40 a.m. Sunday in the 800 block of Vermont Street, Officer Shawn Gross said in an email. ...
A man was taken to the hospital after being injured in a fight around bar-closing time early Sunday morning near 14th and Ohio streets in Lawrence. At 1:40 a.m., University of Kansas police responded to a fight in the 1400 block of Ohio Street and encountered a group of about 15 to 20 people ...
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 135 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
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. Saturday to 6 a.m. Sunday and includes 207 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
On an icy morning a few weeks ago, Ryan Eddinger was nearing the top of a slick hill when it hit him: “I’m in trouble.” “It’s just a sheet of ice,” he said, recalling when he realized he wasn’t going to make it up the steep stretch of Queens Road just north of Lawrence. “I ...
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. Friday to 6 a.m. Saturday and includes 222 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
A student who reportedly had a gun in his backpack at Lawrence High School this week is now facing criminal charges. The student is charged as a juvenile with criminal use of weapons, for allegedly being under 18 and possessing a gun with a barrel less than 12 inches long, and with property ...
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. Thursday to 6 a.m. Friday and includes 155 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
A Free State High School student who left a hunting gun in his car in the school parking lot last fall will not face criminal charges. The Douglas County District Attorney’s Office chose not to file a complaint. “After careful review of the reports our office has declined to file criminal ...