A Lawrence man on trial for murder testified he killed a Texas biker the past October but said the shooting was in self-defense. Taking the witness stand in the third day of his trial, Don Michael Dever, 32, said he fired that shots that killed Charles S. Myers of Clute, Texas, after the two had argued about drugs.

A Lawrence man was among the 21 people killed when a military jet transport exploded over a farm near Walkersville, Md. Capt. Walter Thomas Lusk, 35, one of the victims, was the son of Alpha Lusk of Lawrence.