Story last updated at 1:43 p.m. Friday A middle school student was arrested overnight in Lawrence after reportedly threatening a school shooting. Just before midnight Thursday, Lawrence police received a report that a Billy Mills Middle School student received multiple messages from another ...
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 200 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
Story updated at 10:17 a.m. Thursday A former University of Kansas student was sentenced to prison Wednesday for raping a teen he met at a bar near the campus. Douglas County District Court Judge Sally Pokorny ordered Albert N. Wilson, 23, of Wichita, to 147 months, or just over 12 years, in ...
Story updated at 8:40 p.m. Wednesday, April 3, 2019: A young woman who murdered an older man she lived with in Lawrence is trying another route to appeal her conviction, or at least her “Hard 50” life prison sentence. Among other arguments, 24-year-old Sarah B. Gonzales-McLinn contends ...
Story updated at 3:17 p.m. Wednesday The second of three co-defendants in the Massachusetts Street triple murder case has been convicted, after entering a plea Wednesday in Douglas County District Court. Ahmad M. Rayton, 23, of Topeka, pleaded guilty to one count of attempted voluntary ...
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 201 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
An unusual opportunity to see the Kansas Supreme Court in action proved popular among Lawrence area residents. Just over 800 people attended the court’s special session Monday night at the Lied Center, according to Lisa Taylor, the court’s public information director. She said the ...
Two teens have been charged with two counts of attempted first degree murder and two counts of aggravated robbery in connection with a March 29 shooting at Holcom Park that seriously injured two teen brothers. Benson J. Edwards Jr., 17, and Sahavione K. Caraway, 17, both of Topeka, had their ...
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. Monday to 6 a.m. Tuesday and includes 211 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
Lawrence police are looking for a suspect after a reported armed robbery Tuesday morning at a North Lawrence gas station. Officers responded to Wood Oil, 920 N. Second St., around 6:20 a.m., police said in a news release. A man reported that he had been robbed by a masked man who was armed ...
The Douglas County District Attorney’s Office was reviewing Friday’s double shooting case in which two teens were injured, though charges had not been filed late Monday afternoon. The two suspects — also both juveniles — would be scheduled to appear before a judge for detention ...
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 167 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal in a Douglas County traffic stop case, Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt announced Monday. Oral arguments in the appeal, Kansas v. Charles Glover, will be set for the fall. “I am encouraged by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to ...
Updated at 12:30 p.m. Monday After two Lawrence High School students were shot Friday at Holcom Park, the Lawrence school district in a districtwide email Sunday shared plans to improve security and said staff would research topics such as clear backpacks and metal detectors. Two brothers ...
A one-vehicle crash on the Kansas Turnpike near Lawrence killed a Topeka woman, according to a preliminary report from the Kansas Highway Patrol. The accident happened about 7:30 p.m. Saturday near milepost 206, just east of the North Lawrence exit, according to the report. Telisa Sheree ...
Story updated: 7:42 p.m. Sunday, March 31, 2019. An armed man has surrendered to Douglas County Sheriff’s Deputies after engaging in more than a 12-hour standoff in a field south of Eudora. Sgt. Kristen Channel, sheriff's office spokeswoman, said the man surrendered to deputies unharmed ...
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 198 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
Just before midnight one night last month, a caller to police reported two men in a downtown Lawrence alley in the act of stealing large quantities of something most people wouldn’t want to touch. Used restaurant grease. Specifically, food-particle laden cooking oil, dumped into gloopy bins ...
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 180 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
Lawrence police have arrested two 17-year-old Topeka boys in connection with a double shooting Friday at Lawrence's Holcom Park. Police booked Benson J. Edwards Jr. and Sahavione K. Caraway into the Juvenile Detention Center on aggravated robbery charges, according to a press release Saturday ...