The topic of experience dominated Monday’s district attorney candidate forum, with Republican Mike Warner touting his three decades as a prosecutor and Democrat Dakota Loomis emphasizing his longtime familiarity with and connections to the local legal system. The two candidates, vying to ...
Updated at 6:09 p.m. Friday, Sept. 27 A Lawrence man was sentenced Friday to 31 months in prison for involuntary manslaughter in connection with a 2023 shooting that killed a Topeka man. The man, Maliqe Crenshaw, 23, was originally charged with one felony count of second-degree murder in ...
The American Red Cross and Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical are teaming up during Fire Prevention Week to install free smoke alarms, provide safety tips and help residents in North Lawrence create escape plans. A news release from the Red Cross and LDCFM said the event will take place Oct. ...
A driver was injured Thursday afternoon in a highway crash, which led to the closure of the eastbound lane of the South Lawrence Trafficway/Kansas Highway 10. The lane was closed from 27th Street to about one mile west of Iowa Street after a one-vehicle accident in the area. Medics took the ...
Tempers flared Thursday morning outside a Douglas County courtroom, threatening to erupt into violence again, as a crowd exited a hearing for a Lawrence teen who is accused of killing another teen earlier this year. A similar incident played out in June after the defendant’s first court ...
A Douglas County jury on Tuesday found a man guilty of fleeing or attempting to elude a law enforcement officer and reckless driving in a case that involved the man driving the wrong way on Kansas Highway 10. Eliu D. Sanchez initiated a police pursuit shortly after midnight on Jan. 21, 2023, ...