A Lawrence man was allowed to withdraw his guilty plea in a fentanyl death case on Friday, and he now faces a July trial in the case.
Benjamin Mims, 37, pleaded guilty on May 17 to one count of voluntary manslaughter and one count of unlawful distribution of fentanyl, as the Journal-World reported. He was originally charged with distribution of a controlled substance causing death, a more severe felony.
Mims ...
A Topeka man is charged in Douglas County with raping a 14-year-old girl.
The man, Tyler Lee Patterson, 19, faces two felony counts of rape, according to charging documents. The charges are in connection with two incidents involving the same girl between May and August of 2024.
Patterson was arrested in Topeka on April 21 and was taken to Douglas County on Wednesday afternoon.
If convicted, Patterson faces ...
For David Burnham, paleontology isn't just a science — it's storytelling, and the stories are written in ancient creatures' bones.
Last week, he gave a performance of one of these prehistoric dramas for the Journal-World at the paleontology lab at the University of Kansas' Dyche Hall. In a box is the fossilized skull of one of the players — a baby triceratops that he found in Montana. The skull has scratch ...
A Douglas County judge agreed on Wednesday to delay the trial of a man accused of stabbing a woman to death in a tent at a homeless camp in North Lawrence.
Julius Robert Beasley, 41, of Lawrence, is charged in Douglas County District Court with one count of first-degree murder in connection with the stabbing death of 51-year-old Crystal Marie White on Feb. 22, 2024. White died at a camp that was once home to ...
Charges have been dismissed against a Lawrence man accused of kidnapping and threatening a woman with a machete.
The man, Daniel Louis Schuckman, 48, was charged with one count each of kidnapping, aggravated intimidation of a witness, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, interference with law enforcement and criminal threat, all felonies, and one count each of criminal deprivation of property and domestic ...
Story updated on Sunday, April 20, 2025.
Cadence Elijah Nunez-Ruckman was arrested at the KU Boathouse in Burcham Park, 220 Indiana Ave., and booked into the Douglas County Jail late Saturday.
Nunez-Ruckman was wanted for not complying with pending cases related to an aggravated assault, according to a poster from the sheriff’s office. On Thursday, law enforcement spotted him near 14th and Connecticut ...
