High winds and dry conditions Friday have led officials across Northeast Kansas to warn of an increased risk for wildland fires. The National Weather Service in Topeka issued a Red Flag warning for Friday across the region, adding “extreme fire weather conditions” are expected Friday ...
A Lenexa man was ordered to stand trial on Wednesday for allegedly threatening to shoot another man outside of a bar in downtown Lawrence. The man, DeCorey Jerron Pittman, 31, faces one felony count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and one felony count of criminal threat in ...
Updated at 4:44 p.m. Wednesday, March 12 An off-duty Lawrence police officer took a swing at a man at a high school sporting event in Shawnee County and the man fell to the ground, according to allegations in a recently released police affidavit supporting the arrest of Myrone Grady. Grady, ...
A Lawrence man was charged with two felonies after allegedly injuring another person and resisting arrest early Tuesday morning. John Ross Wolford, 39, is charged in Douglas County District Court with one count of aggravated battery and one count of interference with law enforcement, ...
A 22-year-old Lawrence man told police that he consumed six shots of hard liquor at a pool hall just before he got into a small car with six other young men, pulled a gun from his pants pocket and shot a man sitting in the front seat, critically injuring him. That’s according to a recently ...
A Lawrence man has been charged with felony battery after he was allegedly driving drunk and crashed, injuring a passenger in his car. The crash happened around 3 a.m. Sunday at the intersection of 10th and Tennessee streets when a white Volkswagen going west collided with a black Jeep ...