A massage therapist accused of multiple sex crimes against nearly a dozen women doesn't want jurors to hear potentially incriminating statements he made to police, but jurors likely will hear those statements after a Douglas County judge on Tuesday declined to suppress them. Attorneys for ...

For the staff going to work at Bowersock Mills and Power Company, encountering people living outside with serious mental health or substance use problems is not new. “I and my staff can’t get to work any day of the week without encountering someone that is really suffering from addiction ...

If you get a ticket for illegal parking in areas outside of downtown Lawrence, be prepared to pay nearly double the fine you would have earlier this year. That's according to a recent social media post from the Lawrence Police Department. LPD announced that as of Oct. 23, fines for parking ...

Douglas County Emergency Management is inviting the public to attend a winter readiness workshop next month. The workshop will be held at the auditorium in the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St., from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Dec. 11. The free event will help people recognize cold ...

Story updated at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 10: All lanes of the Kansas River Bridge were open at 4:25 Tuesday afternoon, a few hours after the southbound lanes were closed for a fire beneath the bridge and the northbound lanes were converted to cover both directions. Lawrence Police Department ...

A known drug offender denied giving a vulnerable woman the fentanyl that killed her, but evidence from several cameras and a cellphone led Lawrence police to believe he is the only person who could have done so, according to a recently released arrest affidavit, which also indicates that police ...