City staff is recommending an increase in fines for traffic infractions and speeding for the first time in more than a decade, and the Lawrence City Commission will be considering it at its meeting on Tuesday. A report in the commission's meeting agenda from Municipal Court Administrator Vicki ...
For over 20 years, the Lawrence Police Department has trained officers in specialized skills and tactics to help them patrol the community more effectively on two wheels. In doing so, the department has used the International Police Mountain Bike Association for its cyclist training ...
A federal judge sentenced a former Kansas credit union manager to 63 months in prison for stealing more than $750,000 from her longtime employer and jeopardizing the soundness of the financial institution, according to a news release Thursday from the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Rita Hartman, ...
A man who was acquitted of two sex crimes in September but convicted of furnishing alcohol to a teen girl and unlawfully hosting minors consuming alcohol was sentenced on Wednesday to six months in jail, which was suspended to probation. The defendant, Wyatt Farrow, who was 19 at the time of ...
A Douglas County judge has dismissed two sex-crime charges against a Kansas City, Missouri, man at the request of the district attorney. DA Dakota Loomis on Oct. 31 moved to dismiss the case of Daunte Alaiwat without prejudice, meaning it still can be refiled. Loomis said in his motion that he ...
A string of 911 calls about suspected gunfire across Lawrence on Wednesday night turned out to be a backfiring truck, police said. The calls came from southeast to the northwest of Lawrence and started just before 9 p.m. They didn’t stop until 10:30 p.m. Officers and detectives went in ...