A new attorney is on board for the man who will go on trial a second time in the Motel 6 murder case. Instead of January as initially planned, a new trial is now scheduled to begin April 22, 2019. In July, a jury convicted two men of manslaughter in the case but couldn’t agree on a verdict ...
Rontarus Washington Jr. was arrested Jan. 15, 2015, in Mississippi and, after extradition proceedings, booked into the Douglas County Jail on March 16, 2015. After yet another delay, Washington’s trial is now scheduled to begin more than four years after his arrest. The new date is March 25, ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours. Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Tuesday to 6 a.m. Wednesday and includes 185 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
Marzetta Yarbrough carries a thick, inches-long scar on her left cheek, and another smaller scar near it. Those are remnants, as Yarbrough put it, “from the gunshot ripping my face open.” The same shooting on July 2 at 713 W. 25th St. also left Jeremy Jones with outwardly visible ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours. Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Monday to 6 a.m. Tuesday and includes 238 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
A 20-year veteran of the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office has filed to run sheriff. Jay Armbrister, 42, of Baldwin City, filed Oct. 4 to run as a Democrat. Armbrister said he filed early because he was eager to share his candidacy with county residents. “It’s always been my goal to be ...
New evidence linking Christina L. Towell to the murder and subsequent burning of a Eudora man last year has surfaced, necessitating her trial be pushed back, lawyers say. Specifically, Towell’s ex-husband and a fellow inmate at the jail have both claimed she confessed to them her involvement ...
A former Douglas County Sheriff’s Office deputy admitted he had sexual encounters with a female inmate in his office at the jail and in his personal car on the streets of Lawrence, according to an outside law enforcement investigation of the deputy, who is facing unlawful sexual relations ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours. Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Sunday to 6 a.m. Monday and includes 139 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
A woman convicted of murder for mowing down two construction workers with her pickup is seeking executive clemency. Within days of public notice being published, feedback on Ramona Morgan’s quest had already started coming in. Whether that feedback is pro-pardon or anti-pardon, the Kansas ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours. Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Saturday to 6 a.m. Sunday and includes 226 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours. Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Friday to 6 a.m. Saturday and includes 215 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours. Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Thursday to 6 a.m. Friday and includes 256 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
Story last updated at 2:15 p.m., Friday, Oct. 12 State and local law enforcement units searched for a suspect on the University of Kansas campus Friday morning following a car chase, but by Friday afternoon the search had ended and the man was still at large. Kansas Highway Patrol Lt. Dennis ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours. Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Wednesday to 6 a.m. Thursday and includes 232 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
A University of Kansas student was booked into jail early Thursday morning on suspicion of rape, but later released without being charged, pending further investigation. On Wednesday, a female student reported to KU police that she’d been sexually assaulted a few weeks earlier, in the early ...
A woman was recently convicted and sent to prison for shooting a man during a home-invasion robbery at a Lawrence apartment in December. A total of four additional suspects have now been arrested and charged in connection with the same incident, the newest one being booked into the Douglas ...
Two friends were both convicted in August of killing Cameron Hooks, shooting another man and threatening a third man with a gun at the North Lawrence Motel 6. One of those friends will go to prison for more than 23 years, while the other was sentenced to just under 10 years Wednesday in ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours. Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Tuesday to 6 a.m. Wednesday and includes 199 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
A woman was detained after a police chase that traveled down Massachusetts Street in downtown Lawrence and ended in a crash Wednesday morning. The incident started about 10:30 a.m. at Seventh and Massachusetts streets, where an officer trying to check the woman’s welfare asked her to move ...