A 31-year-old male massage therapist was recently arrested by Lawrence police on suspicion of rape. An affidavit sent to the Douglas County District Attorney's Office for charging consideration details events alleging nonconsensual sexual contact between a male employee and a 19-year-old ...

Police officers were looking for the occupants of a black Nissan on Saturday after an early morning fight outside Replay Lounge led to gunfire according to a social media post by the Lawrence Police Department. A fight broke out at the bar just before 2 a.m., and one man pulled out a gun and ...

A man who brutally raped two University of Kansas students in 1981 has been denied parole again, after one of his victims and the Douglas County district attorney vehemently fought against his release. Jean Rhea, who was attacked in summer 1981 by Sherman L. Galloway while jogging on the KU ...

When police stopped Rodney Marshall on Kansas Highway 10 after a chase that reached 100 mph, prosecutor Eve Kemple said Thursday, “he immediately began spontaneously talking.” He talked about having killed two men, Kemple said: Shelby McCoy and William D. O’Brien. He talked about his ...

A Lawrence teen who took and shared a nude photo of a special-needs student in a high school bathroom received the maximum possible sentence for his crime — six months of probation — after the victim and his family told a Douglas County judge how the incident had profoundly affected their ...

As Lawrence city leaders work out how to pay for the fire department’s planned expansion, local law enforcement officers have a request for them: Don’t cut police to fund it. “Public safety is not one-sided, and it should not be funded that way,” Lt. Amy Rhoads of the Lawrence Police ...