A double-homicide case that has been plagued by numerous delays will almost certainly be delayed again after a defense attorney withdrew just days before trial. "My frustration level is extremely high," Judge Amy Hanley told the defendant, Rodney Marshall, whose trial was set to begin ...
A call comes in for a disturbance in Centennial Park. Lawrence police are on their way, but what dispatchers haven’t been told – and officers therefore don’t know – is that the suspect is armed with a baseball bat. “We don’t want that to become an escalating confrontation,” Sgt. ...
A convicted rapist who was supposed to be sentenced later this week is asking for a new trial, claiming that the judge and the man's trial attorney erred in instructing the jury. The defendant, Reston Phillips, was convicted of rape in May after unsuccessfully putting on a "sexsomnia" defense, ...
A man who critically injured another man after drunkenly shooting him in a car full of people received a one-year prison sentence Tuesday, which was suspended to two years of probation, and will have to pay the victim more than $6,000 in restitution. The defendant, Coby Allen Gore Holland, 22, ...
UPDATED 2:05 P.M., SEPT. 8 Multiple state and federal agencies are investigating Lawrence Kia and several of its related companies for conspiracy, theft and other allegations, the Kansas Department of Revenue has confirmed. As the Journal-World reported on Thursday, Kansas Highway Patrol ...
When Nicholas Beaver murdered a man last year in downtown Lawrence, then fled across town on his bike, he was likely unaware of just how many cameras had recorded his actions. Some of those cameras — like the one that captured three ear-splitting gunshots and Beaver’s victim collapsing on ...