Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical responded Sunday to a vegetation fire west of the Kansas River Levee after receiving reports of a large fire with smoke rising from the tree line. Ten firefighters worked to control the fire and smaller ones that spawned from it behind the 1000 block of ...
A Lenexa man was convicted Monday in Douglas County District Court of one count of aggravated sexual battery for an incident that occurred three years ago in southeastern Lawrence. Jose Garcia Melgarejo, 41, pleaded guilty to the felony in a deal with the state, which had originally charged ...
TOPEKA — A Kansas man has been sentenced to life in prison for setting a house fire that killed his girlfriend and their two daughters. Kyle Tyler, 33, won't be eligible for parole until he serves at least 25 years of his life sentence for first-degree murder in the commission of a felony. ...
Police were looking for suspects Sunday after an early morning shooting near Eighth and New Hampshire streets left one man with a gunshot wound to his leg. Police responded to reports of fighting and a gunshot about 2:30 a.m., according to a social media post by the Lawrence Police Department. ...
Updated at 6:37 p.m. Friday, Oct. 25 A Douglas County judge on Friday ordered a man to stand trial for second-degree murder in the death of a Lawrence resident who was shot earlier this year in front of the Lawrence Public Library. Nicholas Beaver, a Topeka man who had stayed at the Lawrence ...
A Lawrence man was sentenced Friday to a year of probation for threatening to harm a woman if she reported him for alleged abuse. The sentence for Servando Martinez-Vazquez, 24, capped a yearslong case that included a jury trial in September at which he was acquitted of aggravated domestic ...