Updated at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 30 A defendant was ordered to stand trial on Thursday for second-degree murder in connection with a man who was found bludgeoned to death near downtown Lawrence. The defendant, Chadwick Elliot Potter, 34, was originally charged in Douglas County District ...

A 22-year-old man wanted in Douglas County in connection with child sex crimes killed himself in Iola on Tuesday as police were attempting to arrest him, seven hours after the warrant was announced to the public. Iola police were attempting to serve the warrant around 6:30 p.m. to a residence ...

The Lawrence Police Department announced on Thursday the identity of a man who was found dead of a gunshot wound Wednesday night while officers were trying to serve a warrant. The man, Josiah Emmanuel Henderson, 23, of Lawrence, was wanted in Kansas City, Kansas, for alleged rape, aggravated ...

A former KU football player who allegedly called in a bomb threat that caused the evacuation of several University of Kansas football facilities in July entered into a two-year diversion agreement on Thursday to resolve a felony criminal threat charge. Joseph Michael Krause, 22, is charged in ...

Lawrence police found a man dead in a central Lawrence apartment Wednesday evening after officers attempted to serve a warrant there, according to a police department news release. Just before 6 p.m, officers were at an apartment building in the 1700 block of Ohio Street trying to contact a ...

Investigators with the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office confirmed on Wednesday that the woman killed by an Amtrak train on Thanksgiving Day was a local reporter and advocate for the homeless, and they have ruled out suicide or foul play. The woman, Chansi Rose Long, 40 of Lawrence, was ...