Jan 9, 2026 @ 5:33pm
A judge had little to say to a violent sex offender Friday after she sentenced him to nearly a quarter of a century in prison for abusing a Lawrence girl. “I acknowledge that you have taken responsibility via a plea (deal),” Judge Amy Hanley told Kyle Elder, 36, of New York. “That is the only …
Jan 9, 2026 @ 4:21pm
A drug dealer’s attorney told a judge Friday that his client was “very happy” with the plea deal she had made with the Douglas County District Attorney’s Office — a deal that reduced one count of distribution of heroin causing death to two much lower-level offenses of unlawful distribution …
Jan 9, 2026 @ 12:17pm
A day after the year’s first rainfall on Thursday, Lawrence could receive a dusting of snow and wintry mix on Friday night. The National Weather Service in Topeka is forecasting a band of precipitation will move across central and northeast Kansas later in the afternoon, and portions of …
Jan 8, 2026 @ 12:55pm
The Kansas Court of Appeals has thrown out an appeal filed by the attorney for a former Lawrence police officer accused of misdemeanor battery in Shawnee County, noting that the appeal was prematurely filed and hence invalid. The attorney, Shaye Downing, filed the appeal after Magistrate Judge …
Jan 8, 2026 @ 10:57am
Updated at 1:38 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 8 An unarmed Minnesota man who was fatally shot Monday by an employee at City Hall was brought to Lawrence the previous evening at his own request and had done nothing to warrant arrest or involuntary commitment by state troopers, according to the Kansas …
Jan 6, 2026 @ 3:31pm
Story updated at 5:53 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 6: Lawrence police have released the name of the 28-year-old Minnesota man who was fatally shot by a City of Lawrence employee on Monday at City Hall, and provided more information about the events that led up to the shooting. The man’s name was Omar …
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