The Kansas Highway Patrol, Kansas Turnpike Authority, and Douglas County authorities searched an area just north of Clinton Lake following a car chase early Wednesday.Radio traffic indicated a Kansas Turnpike Authority Trooper spotted a stolen vehicle driving westbound on Interstate 70 passing ...
The second criminal trial for Galen Satoe, one of two former Haskell Indian Nations University students accused of rape, began on Tuesday with jury selection. This is the third criminal trial connected to the November 2014 incident. Satoe and Jared Wheeler, the other Haskell student, previously ...
University of Kansas police are investigating a report of an unknown man groping a woman’s breasts at a residence hall last fall.The victim, a female student, reported the sexual battery to police on Saturday, Deputy Chief James Anguiano of the KU Office of Public Safety said. She told police ...
Three sex crimes have been reported in Lawrence since Friday.The Lawrence Police Department's daily activity logs show the individual reports were taken on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.The first was reported at 7 p.m. Friday, the second was reported at 2:19 p.m. Saturday and the third was ...
Body camera footage obtained by the Journal-World has revealed new information about a Lawrence police officer who was accused of attacking a man at a Tecumseh strip club last year.Though the footage, which was provided by the Shawnee County Sheriff's Office, did not capture the incident ...
A Lawrence High School student suffered minor injuries after she was hit by a vehicle Friday afternoon, the Lawrence school district said in a news release.Around 3:45 p.m. a girl was hit by a truck near the intersection of 19th and Louisiana streets.Traffic was slowed at the intersection for ...
Two armed robberies were reported in southwest Lawrence on Wednesday. Three suspects are in custody, and police say they are still investigating.The first robbery was reported at 4 p.m. in the 4100 block of West 24th Place, according to the Lawrence Police Department’s activity logs. Four ...
The University of Kansas Office of Public Safety is adding six new positions, plus new equipment, in response to concealed carry on campus starting this summer.The office is adding three sworn police officers to increase patrols in busy areas of campus, four portable metal detectors and three ...
A man was injured early Wednesday morning after a possibly intoxicated woman hit him with her vehicle, police say.Shortly after 2 a.m. a Lawrence woman driving an SUV in a parking lot at 925 Iowa St. hit a man who was walking in the area, said Lawrence Police Department spokeswoman Kim ...
A Lawrence man arrested Monday is accused of criminal sodomy in connection with a sex crime reported in January, police say.The man, 43, was arrested Monday in downtown Lawrence on suspicion of aggravated criminal sodomy, domestic battery and criminal threat, the Douglas County Jail's online ...
A Lawrence woman was arrested Monday on suspicion of aggravated robbery and other crimes.Alicia Nicole Kistner, 27, was arrested around 1:30 p.m. Monday, according to the Douglas County Jail's online booking logs. She is accused of aggravated robbery and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. ...
There are a few things lacking with Lawrence's board of citizens appointed to examine racial profiling complaints lodged against the city's police department, audience members said on Monday.In fact, some members of the board — the Citizens' Advisory Board for Fair and Impartial Policing — ...
An attempted robbery was reported early Saturday morning at a Lawrence convenience store, police say.The incident was reported at 1:21 a.m. at 701 W. 9th St., according to a Lawrence Police Department offense report.The address belongs to Jayhawk Food Mart.The offense report indicates the ...
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A Lawrence police officer was under investigation for two months last year after he was accused of attacking a man inside a Tecumseh strip club, a Journal-World investigation has found.The officer, Kyle Owens, resigned his position with the Lawrence Police Department shortly after the ...
A federal judge on Friday dismissed part of a lawsuit accusing the University of Kansas of violating Title IX in handling a former rower’s report of being raped on campus by a football player.The key accusation that won’t go forward in court is Daisy Tackett’s allegation that KU was ...
A Lawrence man was flown to an area trauma center as the result of a one-vehicle accident Friday evening, police said. Sgt. Troy Squire with the Lawrence Police Department said Galen Morrison, 44, was headed westbound near the 600 block of West 25th Street at 7:30 p.m. Friday when he struck a ...
A Friday in January began with vodka for one Lawrence man and ended with a string of burglaries, police say.The man in question, Greg Cunningham, told investigators that he doesn't remember anything after drinking with friends, according to the recently released arrest affidavit in his case. ...
Topeka ? A divided Kansas Court of Appeals panel on Friday ordered a new trial for a Hispanic man charged with sexually molesting a 10-year-old girl because the trial court allowed a prosecutor to strike other Hispanic people from the jury pool.Jose Alberto Gonzalez-Sandoval was convicted in ...
Topeka ? The Kansas Court of Appeals said Friday that financial records of a county-owned hospital are subject to the Kansas Open Records Act, even if the hospital is administered on contract by an outside nonprofit corporation.The case involved the Kiowa County Memorial Hospital in Greensburg. ...