Police are investigating a shooting that took place early Saturday morning in downtown Lawrence. According a Lawrence Police Department social media post, several shots were fired near 10th and Massachusetts streets around 1 a.m. Saturday during what witnesses described as a fight between a ...
In isolation, children can suffer at the hands of abusers. But in the process of bringing those abusers to justice, isolation can play a key role too. Children who have been the victim of sexual abuse or other trauma need a place to tell their stories in a protected environment, removed from ...
The Lawrence Police Department on Friday night urged residents to be on the lookout for a dog, possibly a pit bull mix, in a blue harness that bit a Homeless Response Team member at Burcham Park. As the Homeless Response Team entered the park with a Lawrence police officer, they encountered a ...
A Lawrence woman's routine drive home from an appointment turned horrifying last winter, she told police, when her ex suddenly came out from hiding in the back of her car and began threatening to kill her and her family. The man, Chad Everett Cline, 49, of Topeka, is then alleged to have ...
With measles cases in Kansas approaching three dozen, the Lawrence-Douglas County health department is urging people to get vaccinated. As of Wednesday, there were 32 known cases of measles in the state, all of them in southwest Kansas. No cases have been reported in Douglas County. ...
Two people testified on Wednesday about the fear and injury they suffered at the hands of a Eudora man; one of them was a Lawrence police officer who required reconstructive surgery after her nose was broken in the attack. The defendant, Jeffrey Montgomery Smith, 61, is charged with one count ...