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New partnership to connect parents of special needs children with care centers
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - A new partnership will take steps to ensure parents of children with special needs can find child care centers that meet their needs. The ArCare organization has teamed up with United Way of Kaw Valley to offer grants specifically to child care centers that serve children with special needs. The service area includes Shawnee, Jefferson, Jackson and Douglas counties in northeast Kansas.
🎥 Body camera view: Residents evacuated from Kan. senior living center fire
DOUGLAS COUNTY— One firefighter was injured and residents evacuated following a fire in Lawrence on Monday. Lawrence Police released a behind the scenes look at the community effort that went into safely evacuating every resident of the Brandon Woods senior liviing community during the fire. Just after noon Monday,...
WATCH: Lawrence Police provides body cam footage of a fire evacuation at senior living facility
LAWRENCE, Kan. (WIBW) - A senior living facility in Lawrence caught fire on Monday, Aug. 19th. According to a press release from Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical (LDCFM), crews responded to a fire incident at the Brandon Woods senior living facility at 1501 Inverness Drive a little after noon on Monday afternoon.
Residents evacuated, officer injured after fire at Kan. senior living center
DOUGLAS COUNTY— One firefighter was injured and residents evacuated following a fire in Lawrence. Just after noon Monday, crews responded to a fire at Brandon Woods senior living residence, 1501 Inverness Drive in Lawrence, according to a media release from Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical. Multiple reports of heavy smoke...
Fire damages Lawrence senior living facility; residents safe
Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical first responders worked to put out a fire at Brandon Woods at Alvamar Monday afternoon. The initial call came in just before noon Monday, according to LDCFM’s PulsePoint app. Several fire apparatus were dispatched to the senior living community at 1501 Inverness Drive in west Lawrence.
Senior housing facility suffers serious fire damages, 85 residents transported to another facility
LAWRENCE, Kan. (KCTV) - Over 80 residents were transported to another housing facility after serious fire damage. The Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical (LDCFM) responded to a fire at 1501 Inverness Drive at noon on Monday, Aug. 19. Multiple reports of heavy smoke and fire with flames were reported by the residents and bystanders.
5 people injured on K-10 accident early Sunday morning
DOUGLAS COUNTY, Kan. (WIBW) - The Douglas County Sheriff responded to a three-vehicle accident on K-10 early Sunday morning. Shortly before 2 a.m., all three vehicles were headed westbound on K-10 near the Johnson County line and east of Eudora. A 20-year-old Shawnee man driving a Chrysler 300 rear-ended a...
Overnight rear-end crash on Kansas Highway involves 3 cars, 8 people
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - On Sunday, the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office reported a three-car crash on Kansas Highway 10 that involved eight people. According to Douglas County, the crash happened around 1:53 a.m. on Aug. 18 on westbound K-10 Highway, near mile marker 20. The incident started when...
Man pleads no contest after multiple overdoses reported in Lawrence neighborhood
LAWRENCE, Kan. (KCTV) - A Kansas man has pleaded no contest to the illegal distribution of drugs after multiple overdoses were reported in a Lawrence neighborhood. Douglas County, Kansas, District Attorney Suzanne Valdez announced on Friday, Aug. 16, that James M. Bingman III, 41, of Lawrence, pleaded no contest to attempted unlawful distribution of prescription pills and illegal drugs.
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