A Topeka woman suffered serious injuries Wednesday afternoon after her vehicle struck a power pole on U.S. Highway 40 just west of Lawrence, according to the Douglas County Sheriff's Office. The crash was reported at about 3:45 p.m. near the intersection of U.S. Highway 40 and East 767 Road, ...
A former inmate of a now-defunct private jail in Leavenworth is suing the facility’s operators for running a facility so “dangerous, understaffed and insecure” that he was stabbed in 2021. The lawsuit, filed last month in Wyandotte County and amended Monday, says CoreCivic, one of the ...
A Lawrence woman accused of killing a bicyclist in a car crash in 2021 pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter on Tuesday in Douglas County District Court as part of a plea agreement. Kodi Rae Crane, 41, was originally charged with second-degree murder in the death of 50-year-old Rachel ...
Story updated at 5:06 p.m. Tuesday: Several University of Kansas football facilities were evacuated Monday evening following a bomb threat, according to KU police, and a KU football player is currently facing a felony charge in Douglas County District Court. On Monday evening, the Anderson ...
A Lawrence man who was originally charged with trafficking children for sex in exchange for rent entered a plea on Friday for a lesser crime, avoiding a trial. The man, Cormick Gabriel Ferrell, 44, was facing two counts of aggravated human trafficking in one case and one count of aggravated ...
It was 6:45 a.m. last Saturday, and Steve and April Evans were 15 minutes into their walk on North Lawrence’s Kansas River levee trail. That’s when April yelled: “We are being chased!” Her husband, Steve, had walked many steps ahead of her to gain a better sight line of the ...