A Missouri teenager was hospitalized after a nut and bolt crashed through the windshield of a vehicle in west Lawrence and struck her in the face. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol online crash logs, the accident occurred about 5 p.m. Saturday near the intersection of U.S. Highway ...
Rontarus Washington Jr. will no longer face a second jury trial this September in his long-running murder case, as the Douglas County District Court allowed the trial to be delayed another year. During a hearing on Friday, Judge James McCabria approved a request from Washington's new defense ...
TOPEKA — The Kansas Supreme Court upheld on Friday the convictions of a woman who participated in the deaths of three people who were strangled or smothered with trash bags in her Topeka home. In a unanimous opinion, the high court also affirmed Kora Liles' sentences for all 11 charges on ...
A local prosecutor charged a boat captain and two other employees Friday over 17 deaths in July 2018 when a tourist boat sank on a Missouri lake during a severe thunderstorm, reviving the threat of long prison sentences seven months after federal charges against them were dismissed. The total ...
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 ...
WICHITA — The family of a Black man shot in the back by a white Wichita police officer in 2012 has reached a $900,000 settlement with the city. The settlement comes just weeks before a lawsuit filed by the parents of 23-year-old Marquez Smart was set for a jury trial in federal court, the ...