Residents have a chance to see their local police dogs in action on Sunday as the Lawrence Police Department’s patrol service dogs compete in the 2nd Annual K-9 Games. Three dogs from the Lawrence Police Department will participate in the games from 1 to 3 p.m. at Stormont Vail Events ...
A Douglas County judge on Wednesday again considered — and again denied — a defendant’s motion to have his confession to child sex crimes suppressed from ever being heard by a jury of his peers. Hatem Chahine, the attorney for 22-year-old defendant Mateo Clavel Wills, a former Raintree ...
A $5.7 million project to improve three federal highways north of Lawrence will get started Thursday, and significant traffic delays may begin as well. Crews will begin work on three sections of highway, and much of the work will require motorists to be escorted through the construction zones ...
Below is a list of individuals who have been arrested and charged with a felony crime in Douglas County. Due to lag times in charging and records processing, the reporting period for this report is from 5 p.m. Monday to 5 p.m. Tuesday. Defendants listed should be presumed innocent unless ...
Lawrence police arrested a man on Tuesday after a disturbance initially reported as an assault with an AR-15 style rifle. The weapon turned out to be a paintball gun, police determined. Just before 1 p.m. on Tuesday, officers rushed to the parking garage next to the Lawrence Public Library, ...
Updated at 12:48 p.m. Wednesday, June 18 The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office is investigating after a 64-year-old man was taken to a Kansas City area hospital Wednesday morning with apparent stab wounds. Later in the day a suspect, Heather Sue Williams, 47, of Lawrence, was arrested on ...