Story updated: 10:47 a.m. Tuesday, June 4, 2019. A man charged with attempted murder for allegedly shooting up a moving car with people inside — who’s been out on bond more than a year — was arrested this weekend for allegedly having a stolen gun and illegal drugs. After posting a comparatively low bond in the new case, the suspect was released again, according to jail records. It’s two more weeks ...
Cherry McCabria, 88, didn’t even try to leave her basement until she heard her neighbor yelling. “Cherry! Cherry!” she recalls hearing from above. “In my heart it equated what the shepherds heard on Christmas. It was just so relieving.” McCabria — “scared to death” but otherwise unscathed — had just survived what she would soon realize was the storm of her life. Chris Paxton, who lives about ...
A number of witnesses subpoenaed for the Massachusetts Street triple murder trial are either former co-defendants in the case or people who are in jail for unrelated charges. None of those witnesses, or other potential witnesses, have been promised anything in exchange for testifying, prosecutors confirmed at a pretrial hearing Friday, after defense attorneys asked that any such deals be disclosed. “There ...
Story updated 7:05 p.m. Thursday, May 30, 2019: Amid twisted, broken-off trees and piles of wood, sheetrock and metal that once were buildings south of Lawrence, a small army was hard at work Thursday. Besides residents lugging branches into heaps and picking through debris on their properties, hundreds of crews from across the state poured into the area to restore electricity. Two days after an EF-4 tornado ...
A man with a previous sex crime conviction in Missouri has now been convicted of a kidnapping and sex crime in Douglas County. B.J. Lauri, 44, of Lawrence, pleaded no contest and was convicted of kidnapping and aggravated sexual battery, both felonies, on Thursday in Douglas County District Court. Under the plea agreement, prosecutor Alice Walker and appointed defense attorney Branden Smith said they agreed ...
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly took a flight tour Thursday over the path of an EF-4 tornado that left nearly 32 miles of destruction in Douglas and Leavenworth counties. Kelly described feeling “incredibly overwhelmed” seeing the devastation in full from the air. “It just keeps going on and on,” she said. “The fact that there was not a fatality is amazing.” Kelly also viewed tornado damage from the ...