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 ...
A new trial date has been set for a Lawrence man who shot and killed another man on his doorstep. On Tuesday, Douglas County District Court Judge Kay Huff scheduled the murder trial against Steven A. Drake III, 22, to begin Aug. 19. It’s expected to last a week and a half. The trial has ...
The Douglas County district attorney says he plans to file a motion to get an attempted murder suspect back in jail, after the man was arrested on new lower-severity charges over the weekend and released on a matching low bond. DA Charles Branson said he also wanted to discuss changing ...
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 187 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
Story updated: 10:47 a.m. Tuesday, June 4, 2019. A man charged with attempted murder for allegedly shooting up a moving car with people inside — who’s been out on bond more than a year — was arrested this weekend for allegedly having a stolen gun and illegal drugs. After posting a ...
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 157 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
The Kansas Highway Patrol investigated five fatal crashes in a 12-hour period Friday. Six people died in the five wrecks, which occurred from 12:40 p.m. Friday to midnight. Three of the crashes involved tractor-trailers, and one was a single-vehicle crash of a motorcycle. According to ...
Emerging from his basement to find large portions of his home destroyed by an EF-4 tornado, Lawrence High School senior Daniel Davidson notified his yearbook teacher, Barbara Tholen, that he would be unable to help finish the spring section. While brainstorming how to help Davidson, Tholen said ...
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 214 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
Driving home to Ottawa despite a tornado warning Tuesday afternoon, Terry Seymour pulled to the side of Kansas Highway 10 when visibility dropped to less than 10 feet in the rain. “I figured I would try to get as close to home as I could before having to pull over,” Seymour said. ...
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 276 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
Cherry McCabria, 88, didn’t even try to leave her basement until she heard her neighbor yelling. “Cherry! Cherry!” she recalls hearing from above. “In my heart it equated what the shepherds heard on Christmas. It was just so relieving.” McCabria — “scared to death” but ...
A number of witnesses subpoenaed for the Massachusetts Street triple murder trial are either former co-defendants in the case or people who are in jail for unrelated charges. None of those witnesses, or other potential witnesses, have been promised anything in exchange for testifying, ...
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 196 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
Local residents cleaning up from Tuesday's destructive tornado will have two designated sites to drop off tree and brush debris. Douglas County Emergency Management announced the opening of the two sites Friday. They are located at the southeast corner of 31st Street and Haskell Avenue in ...
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly on Thursday took an aerial tour of the destruction left by an EF-4 tornado that ripped across parts of Douglas and Leavenworth counties Tuesday evening. The Associated Press accompanied the governor on the flight and took photos of the tornado's path, which stretched ...