Incriminating statements made by an alleged sex offender will not be suppressed after a Douglas County judge on Thursday found that the statements were knowingly, voluntarily and intelligently made to police after a Miranda warning. The defendant in the case, Kendrick Deandre Atkins, 25, of ...
Lawrence's police chief and public schools leader have created a video message urging students to "report, not repost" rumors and threats regarding school violence. Chief Rich Lockhart and interim Superintendent Jeanice Kerr Swift recorded an approximately two-minute video message that will ...
Updated at 6:10 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 2 A Douglas County judge has ordered a Lawrence teen to stand trial for first-degree, premeditated murder in the shooting death of a 17-year-old boy earlier this year. The defendant, Cir Allen Keith Glover, 19, appeared in court Wednesday for the second ...
A Lawrence man who was accused of going on a violent rampage with a hammer and a Jeep last spring pleaded no contest on Wednesday in Douglas County District Court to felony criminal threat and now faces more than a year in prison. Ronald Dwayne Walters, 51, was originally charged with multiple ...
Reports of rape on the University of Kansas’ Lawrence campus fell in 2023, but allegations of stalking rose sharply and hit a new three-year high, according to a new campus security report. KU officials on the Lawrence campus — anybody from police officers to counselors — received seven ...
The days of police business being aired over a “scanner” are nearing their end as Douglas County law enforcement agencies move to a system of fully encrypted radio communication to comply with a federal mandate. This means that the public, including news outlets, will not be able to hear ...