OMAHA, NEB. — A man who was shot and killed by Kansas law enforcement has also now been tied to a second homicide in Nebraska, police said Friday. Police identified the man killed Monday in Lawrence as 31-year-old Nicholas Hirsh, who faced a first-degree murder arrest warrant for the ...
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 up to 6 a.m. on the date listed and extending back to 6 a.m. on the previous day. Each listing includes a date, time and general ...
About nine days after a dead person was found at Naismith Valley Park, Lawrence police say they have no updates on the investigation. Officers were dispatched June 10 to a report of a body found in the park, at 1400 W. 27th St., the Journal-World previously reported. Police department ...
Six people were killed in a head-on crash on Kansas Highway 10 Thursday evening, according to the Douglas County Sheriff's Office. Deputies responded to the crash between a westbound Ford Fusion and an eastbound GMC around 6:40 p.m. Thursday at mile marker 385 on U.S Highway 40, Jenn ...
None of the three candidates for Douglas County sheriff spoke firmly in favor of expanding the Douglas County Jail during an online forum Thursday afternoon, and one said he opposes it. Rob Hulse, executive vice president of the Lawrence Board of Realtors, and Danielle Davey, governmental ...
Updated at 7:56 p.m. Thursday: The Lawrence Police Department has deleted but is defending a tweet showing a police captain laughing with the property of an arrested man, saying that “By no means was it intended to make fun of anyone other than ourselves.” The post featured an image 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 up to 6 a.m. on the date listed and extending back to 6 a.m. on the previous day. Each listing includes a date, time and general ...
While the Douglas County Commission has recently challenged local criminal justice leaders to find ways to decrease their usage of the county jail, the commissioners on Wednesday said they need to also challenge state lawmakers. “This all starts in Topeka,” Commissioner Michelle Derusseau ...
Story updated at 5:43 p.m. Wednesday: As the aftermath of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis continues to ripple across the globe, civilians want to know what is being done to prevent such an incident from happening in their hometowns. The Lawrence Police Department last week published 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 up to 6 a.m. on the date listed and extending back to 6 a.m. on the previous day. Each listing includes a date, time and general ...
Five Democratic candidates running for two Douglas County Commission seats all expressed a level of opposition to the county’s controversial jail expansion project during a candidate forum hosted Tuesday by the local Democratic Party. Where the candidates differed was how they wanted to ...
For about an hour, a group of protesters Tuesday made expletive-laden demands for Lawrence city commissioners to release a black man who has been in the Douglas County Jail awaiting a murder trial for five years. Protesters flowed into City Hall chambers demanding that the commission defund ...
Four buildings at Hidden Valley Camp in west Lawrence were vandalized over the weekend, camp officials said. Camp officials discovered a door had been ripped off an outdoor toilet, other toilets and the main cabin were damaged and a permanent yurt used for camping had several broken panels, ...
Updated at 2:14 p.m. Tuesday The three candidates for Douglas County sheriff will participate in an online forum hosted by the Lawrence Board of Realtors Thursday afternoon. Lt. Jay Armbrister, Deputy Dale Flory and Capt. Doug Woods, all longtime employees of the sheriff’s office, have all ...
Story updated at 12:25 p.m. Tuesday A man fatally shot by law enforcement Monday afternoon in Lawrence has been identified as Nicholas Ryan Hirsh, 31, a homicide suspect from Nebraska, according to Omaha, Neb., police. Omaha police officers had responded to a shooting call just after noon ...
Story updated at 7:20 p.m. Monday: Law enforcement officers shot and killed a suspect following a car chase that ended in Lawrence around 3:30 p.m. Monday. The suspect, a white man, was sought by U.S. Marshals, Kansas Highway Patrol Technical Trooper Don Hughes said at the scene. KHP officers ...
Law enforcement has come under new scrutiny nationwide after George Floyd died May 25 in Minneapolis, Minn., after ex-officer Derek Chauvin held his knee on Floyd’s neck in the street for nearly nine minutes. Usage of body-worn cameras — and failure to capture some incidents — has been ...
Over the past two years, no member of the general public has laid eyes on details of the more than 25 complaints made against Lawrence police, and none of the cases has been reviewed by the city's Community Police Review Board. But as calls for police reform and accountability are heard ...
Despite calls across the country for changes in how law enforcement agencies operate, the Lawrence school district plans to continue using officers from the Lawrence Police Department in its schools. But school board leaders are asking whether there needs to be more oversight of the school ...
When one cabinet door closes, another opens. That may not be exactly how the old adage goes, but it is how Douglas County Sheriff Ken McGovern embarked on a long career in law enforcement that is now winding to a close. McGovern had been working for a cabinet company that closed in March of ...