Lawrence police are seeking the public’s help in identifying a man who allegedly bit the tip of another man’s finger off near a bar in downtown Lawrence. According to a release on Wednesday from the Lawrence Police Department, police were called to a bar near Seventh and Massachusetts ...
A mother who says she was fed up with her son being bullied obtained a court order prohibiting the alleged bully from going anywhere near her son. Problem solved, she thought, until this question came into focus: How is the order to be enforced if both boys go to the same school? The mother, ...
The search for a 74-year-old Lawrence woman has expanded into neighboring Johnson County after she was reported missing nearly three weeks ago. Wanda Dyer is a 5-foot-2 African American woman with signs of dementia who has short gray hair and was last seen wearing a black coat with a pink ...
Overland Park — A Lawrence attorney on Tuesday argued to a traveling panel of appellate judges that a Douglas County judge made a big mistake when he dismissed a lawsuit by a group of Lawrence landlords over the city's new ordinance forbidding discrimination based on the source of ...
A woman testified on Monday that she had been drinking heavily the night she was allegedly abducted by a fellow student and raped before escaping back to her Haskell dormitory. The accused, Tristan Aden James, 20, a Haskell Indian Nations University student, is charged in Douglas County ...
Douglas County is using a consultant to conduct a review of Consolidated Fire District 1 to ensure its long-term effectiveness in serving 228 square miles within the unincorporated parts of the county. The county has hired international consulting firm Emergency Services Consulting ...