Longtime volunteer firefighter David Wulfkuhle was serving as incident commander when one of the largest grass fires in the county’s history erupted — threatening a house and its pets — and he says one person made a big difference.
“The fire was actually going over the top of the roof ...
The National Weather Service has issued a tornado watch for Douglas County and many other Kansas counties until 9 p.m. Monday.
A tornado watch means that conditions are present for tornadoes to form in the watch area, which includes much of northeastern and north-central Kansas.
Showers and ...
A Lawrence woman was arrested Sunday afternoon after she allegedly provided vodka to the dogs of another resident.
The incident near 24th Street and Ousdahl Road began as a dispute over a woman who wouldn’t leave another person’s porch, Lawrence Police spokeswoman Laura McCabe said.
When ...
An Overland Park pediatric physician has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison without the possibility of parole for producing child pornography, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Missouri.
The physician, Brian Aalbers, 51, was ...
Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical responded Sunday afternoon to a fire in the 2000 block of New Hampshire Street.
Eight units comprising 21 firefighters were dispatched to the site at 3:58 p.m., where they found a detached garage engulfed in flames, according to an email from LDCFM. The ...
Crews worked to extinguish a fire at around 5:30 p.m. at a house in the 1100 block of Connecticut Street.
Acting Deputy Chief Tyler Wade said in an email to the Journal-World that at 5:29 p.m., Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical was dispatched to the scene, and firefighters observed heavy ...