A Lawrence man reportedly told police that he owed a “significant drug debt, which resulted in threats toward him and his wife,” so he went to a nearby bank to get money. James M. Pugh, 58, was arrested hours after a robbery was reported on Jan. 31 at Landmark National Bank, 2710 Iowa St. ...
While advocates have been working with Lawrence City Hall on policies to make it less likely that immigrants will be detained solely for immigration violations, there are signs their sights soon may shift to the Douglas County Jail. A review by the Journal-World found the jail follows a ...
Updated to add booking photo at 9:35 a.m. Tuesday, March 10: A Lawrence man has been charged in Douglas County District Court with three counts of sexual exploitation of a child. Bruce Stanley Springsteen, 62, was arrested early Thursday and charged Friday afternoon. The complaint in his ...
Updated at 3:29 p.m. Friday A 29-year-old man was killed and three others were injured as the result of a two-vehicle accident Thursday afternoon, according to the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office. Sheriff’s office personnel responded at approximately 2:40 p.m. Thursday to the accident in ...
A retrial date was set Friday for Rontarus Washington Jr., who is coming up on five years in custody of the Douglas County Jail. Washington, 23, is charged with first-degree murder in connection with the Nov. 7, 2014, death of 19-year-old Justina Altamirano Mosso, who was his neighbor at ...
The 483 crimes reported to the University of Kansas' Public Safety Office in 2019 were the lowest in the last decade, KU announced in a news release Friday. Theft and vandalism remain the most reported crimes on the Lawrence campus, but those numbers also dropped in 2019. The office received ...
Story updated at 12:06 p.m. Friday A Kansas Highway Patrol trooper fired multiple shots at a fleeing Missouri motorist and grazed the man with a bullet after he rammed a patrol car, authorities say. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation said in a news release that the pursuit started Thursday ...
City Manager Craig Owens says he thinks unrest within the Lawrence Police Department stems from a lack of direction and problems with communications. In his most detailed comments since the public learned last week that the Lawrence police officers union had taken a vote of no confidence in ...
Updated with booking photo at 7:23 a.m. Friday: A Lawrence man recently charged with a child sex crime had been on contract with several University of Kansas women's athletics teams since 2015, according to KU leaders. A statement from KU Chancellor Douglas Girod and Athletic Director Jeff ...
A Kansas City, Mo., man was arrested on suspicion of rape Thursday morning, jail records indicate. The 45-year-old was arrested on a probable cause warrant in connection with a 2019 court case, according to the Douglas County Jail booking log. He was released on $25,000 surety bond to ...
A fire at an eastern Lawrence convenience store was caused by improper storage of oily rags that supported spontaneous combustion, according to Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical. Firefighters responded to the fire at 2200 Harper St., a Conoco, at 3:39 a.m. Feb. 27, the Journal-World ...
A Lawrence man reportedly told police that he robbed a payday loan store because he was about to get evicted from his apartment. Joseph M. Splechter, 27, allegedly turned himself in — along with most of the cash — to Lawrence police the day after a robbery was reported at Check Into Cash, ...
Eight organizations in Douglas County failed health code inspections in February. Each month, I take a look at inspection results and list every place either listed out of compliance or with 10 or more code violations. Full reports are available online at agriculture.ks.gov. There, you can ...
A Minnesota man was killed in a car accident on Interstate 70 in Douglas County, according to a Kansas Highway Patrol crash report. David Lee Woelfle, 50, of Lino Lakes, Minn., was driving a Ram ProMaster near the 199 mile marker on I-70 when he hit a deer around 2 a.m. Sunday, according to ...
A drunken Christmas house party came to an abrupt end when an attendee reportedly woke to find a man raping one of the hosts, who was unconscious, court documents allege. Andrew Elliott Ferguson, 22, of Lawrence, is a student at the University of Kansas School of Pharmacy, according to court ...
A girl reportedly told a social worker that a Lawrence man touched her sexually under the guise of a “massage.” She shouldn’t tell anyone what happened because massages were “really expensive” and she was "lucky" to get one for free, he also allegedly told her. Shawn Paul ...
The Douglas County district attorney’s office has dropped a case against a woman charged in connection with an alleged fight while cooking, court records show. Roslyn M. Colum, 37, was charged with three counts of aggravated battery, a felony, and misdemeanor criminal damage to property ...
A Lawrence woman was sentenced Friday to serve two days in jail followed by 18 months of probation for a DUI car accident that left another woman injured in August. Autumn Sky Hale, 43, pleaded no contest last month and a judge found her guilty of aggravated battery, a felony, and driving ...
Defense attorneys in a long-pending Lawrence murder case said Friday that they want an independent lab to complete additional DNA testing in the case to avoid what they call the “obvious bias” of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation. Rontarus Washington Jr., 23, is charged with first-degree ...
A woman now serving a life sentence for murder testified on Thursday that her lawyer constantly reassured her that they would win her case; she didn’t understand the possible repercussions if they didn’t, nor did she understand her rights as a defendant. A Douglas County District Court ...