An Ozawkie woman says she is lucky to be alive after a sudden explosion under her car seat quickly engulfed her new car in flames and left her with blistering burns. Jane Lanham, 70, was driving her 2023 Kia Sorento on June 30 to a gas station in Perry after dropping off her grandson with ...
A Douglas County judge on Wednesday denied a defendant’s motion to suppress Snapchat evidence in a case in which he is accused of sexually targeting numerous pre-teen girls at a Lawrence school. The alleged crimes of defendant Kenneth Soap, 44, of Lawrence, came to light after a teacher in ...
A Lawrence 17-year-old has died in a single-vehicle crash near Clinton Lake, according to the Douglas County Sheriff's Office. Sheriff's office spokesman George Diepenbrock said that Brody Minton, 17, was found dead on Tuesday near the 900 block of North 1150 Road. Minton was reported missing ...
The Lawrence Police Department in coming weeks plans to host a two-day program to strengthen police and community partnerships. The public program — split into two half-days on July 27 and Aug. 3 — will involve Department of Justice facilitators who will help identify issues and ...
When two teachers from Kansas were traveling to see a friend in Nebraska for Memorial Day, they didn’t remotely imagine that the road trip would end in a strip search, an impounded vehicle and thousands of dollars in legal fees, but that's what happened after they were pulled over for ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity over the weekend. 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 address ...