Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours. Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Sunday to 6 a.m. Monday and includes 182 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
Trial proceedings have begun in the case of the man charged with the most murders in a single incident in recent Lawrence history: the 2017 triple homicide on Massachusetts Street. Charged with three counts of murder plus one attempted murder, Anthony L. Roberts Jr., 22, of Topeka, appeared in ...
After a night of heavy drinking among a small group of acquaintances, a woman went to bed with her boyfriend but awoke hours later to another man raping her, according to a police affidavit. The woman called police right after the September 2018 incident. Following an investigation that ...
A girl’s description of being groped for years led to high-level felony charges against a Lawrence man, a police affidavit reveals. The girl told Lawrence police detectives that the sexual abuse began when she was 12 and continued until she was 15, up until shortly before police got involved ...
Two people were taken to Overland Park Regional Medical Center after suffering injuries in a motorcycle crash Saturday near Eudora. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol online crash logs, Jason A. Reynolds, 45, of Olathe, was westbound at about 5 p.m. in the 2300 block of North 1400 Road ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours. Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Saturday to 6 a.m. Sunday and includes 184 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
A Lawrence woman was home by herself on a recent Saturday when a man she didn’t know suddenly came in through the back door, then grabbed her by the hair when she tried to run. The man, it turns out, was trying to hide after leading law enforcement on a car chase and then a foot chase from ...
Recruiting firefighters and paramedics will be a big challenge for the next chief of Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical, the three candidates for the vacant chief position told those attending a question-and-answer session Saturday at the Lawrence Public Library. The forum, which drew about ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours. Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Friday to 6 a.m. Saturday and includes 207 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
Douglas County officials say they’ve now confirmed the recent tornado destroyed over a dozen homes and affected over 80 more in the county. The May 28 tornado touched down south of Lawrence and mowed through properties to the county line. It continued northeastward into Leavenworth County, ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours. Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Thursday to 6 a.m. Friday and includes 176 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
A Lawrence day care center is currently without a home after an EF-4 tornado on May 28 heavily damaged its building. It is requesting the public’s help in finding a temporary facility. The families of 70 children, including 17 ECKAN Early Head Start children, depended upon Building Blocks ...
Someone fired gunshots that hit a west Lawrence apartment building overnight, Lawrence police said. About 1:15 a.m. Friday, police went to the 700 block of Monterey Way after getting multiple 911 calls from nearby residents who heard the sound of gunshots in a nearby parking lot, Officer Shawn ...
A Lawrence man went to jail overnight after allegedly hitting his neighbor with a hatchet — the blunt side — police said. The two neighbors had an “ongoing dispute,” and the altercation stemmed from that, Officer Shawn Gross said, in an email. After being called by other neighbors, ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours. Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Wednesday to 6 a.m. Thursday and includes 182 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
The public is invited to a retirement reception honoring Douglas County District Court Judge Paula Martin. The reception is planned for 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, June 14, in the Douglas County Commission Room at the old courthouse, 1100 Massachusetts St. Martin's announced retirement date is ...
The last defendant in a group of people who robbed and shot a Lawrence man in his apartment on December 2017 is headed to prison. Though he wasn’t accused of pulling the trigger, Michael R. Smith, 28, of Kansas City, Mo., was one of five people who barged into the apartment to rob the ...
Organizers are looking for more volunteers to help clean up damage caused by last week's tornado. Douglas County Emergency Management encourages anyone interested in helping to check in at the First Church of the Nazarene, 1470 N. 1000 Road. The church, near the tornado's path south of ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours. Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Tuesday to 6 a.m. Wednesday and includes 217 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
The University of Kansas is paying a former student-athlete $40,000 to settle her lawsuit against the school, in which she claimed mold in vents to her dorm room made her sick. Though the university still denies her claims, it will pay Laine R. Evans $20,000 and her attorneys $20,000 to settle ...