A two-vehicle crash south of Lawrence on Sunday afternoon sent two people to the hospital and started a fire. An SUV and a truck hauling a trailer and hay bales were involved in a crash at 1:35 p.m. on U.S. Highway 56 near Globe at East 550 Road. Both vehicles were westbound when the truck ...
Two serious injury crashes occurred on Saturday afternoon, one just south of Lawrence and another just north of Lawrence, the Douglas County Sheriff's Office said Saturday evening. The crash south of Lawrence was a two-vehicle collision on U.S. Highway 59 in which five people were injured. ...
A registered sex offender was found guilty Friday of another sex crime against a child and will face at least 15 years in prison when he is sentenced in November. The offender, Calvin Lee Payne, 36, pleaded no contest Friday to one count of criminal sodomy against a child who was 13 at the ...
While sentencing a teen to 10 years in prison on Friday for murdering a 17-year-old boy last summer, Judge Stacey Donovan took a moment to note how many people in the courtroom had tears in their eyes. "It's a horrible day for everyone," Donovan told the assembled friends and loved ones of ...
A double-murder trial that was scheduled to begin Monday has been canceled, as expected, and new counsel has been appointed for a man who has gone through at least half a dozen court-appointed attorneys. As the Journal-World reported, one of defendant Rodney Marshall's attorneys, Cline Boone, ...
A man accused of stabbing a 35-year-old Lawrence woman to death in August appeared in court Wednesday to schedule a hearing for his multiple criminal cases, including second-degree murder. Aaron Blake Wright, 63, is facing charges of criminal threat, battery on a law enforcement officer and ...