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 ...
A Douglas County jury on Monday found itself in the unusual position of convicting a man of committing a felony in the middle of a courtroom during his jury trial in a different case. Monday’s jurors, after about half a day of hearing testimony in Judge Amy Hanley’s courtroom, took less ...
A new round of disruptions are coming to the Sixth Street interchange on Kansas Highway 10 in west Lawrence. Beginning Wednesday, motorists who are traveling southbound on K-10 — which is also known as the South Lawrence Trafficway — won’t be able to use the exit ramp to get to Sixth ...
A Lawrence man who is alleged to have chased a couple on the Kansas River levee trail with an ax in 2023 has been arrested again while on bond, this time on suspicion of domestic battery. Brandon Eugene Snow, 25, is charged in Douglas County District Court with one misdemeanor count of ...