Crews extinguished an apartment fire in one of the two buildings at Pinnacle Woods Apartments on Monday afternoon, and nobody was injured, first responders told the Journal-World. Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical responded to the fire just after 1:30 p.m. on Monday, and crews were on the ...

A property manager for a landlord accused of numerous child sex crimes testified on Monday that the landlord asked him to procure sworn affidavits from the alleged victims "recanting their story." According to the state, the 74-year-old landlord, Mark Duane Strand, dangled the promise of ...

During a forum discussing local law enforcement topics Saturday afternoon, Lawrence Police Chief Rich Lockhart made it clear how he felt about the unrest early in the year in Minneapolis. “Renee Good and Alex Pretti were murdered (by federal agents),” Lockhart told the crowd of around 70 ...

A Douglas County judge on Friday denied a murder defendant's claim that he should be immune from prosecution based on self-defense. The denial came in a nearly four-year-old case in which Rodney Marshall, 55, is accused of murdering two men in July 2022 and attempting to murder multiple police ...

Updated at 5:20 p.m. Friday, April 3 A Free State High School student who will graduate next month was convicted on Thursday of taking and sharing a nude photo of a special needs student at the school last year. In a deal with the state, the teen pleaded no contest in Douglas County District ...

Updated at 6:36 p.m., Thursday, March 2, 2026. Hundreds of local residents want Sheriff Jay Armbrister to oppose a bill on how much sheriffs must cooperate with ICE agents, but the sheriff is backing the bill. Armbrister told the Journal-World on Tuesday that he is supporting the bill ...