A trial date has finally been set for a Lawrence man accused of burglarizing the home of two Navy men before the sailors confronted him and held him at gunpoint until police arrived.
The accused, Chasmen Edward Foster, 35, of Lawrence, is charged with one felony count of aggravated burglary and one felony count of burglary. The charges are in connection with an incident on June 22, 2022, in the 1000 block of ...
It was supposed to be a time for Wanda and David Dyer to celebrate almost half a century of loving each other. But instead, David has experienced a week of anxious waiting, searching and hoping — hoping that his missing wife is safe and that she'll come back home.
David hasn't heard from Wanda since March 21, when the 74-year-old former librarian left their apartment at Fifth and California streets and didn't ...
A Kansas City, Kansas, woman was charged Thursday morning after she allegedly led law enforcement on a chase through west Lawrence before a Douglas County sheriff’s deputy stopped her with his patrol vehicle.
A deputy saw the woman speeding around 12:15 a.m Thursday in a gray Nissan Altima on U.S. Highway 59 four miles south of Lawrence, heading toward the city, said spokesperson George Diepenbrock in a ...
A Lawrence man who was accused at a trial of possibly being the true killer of a 14-year-old boy was convicted on Thursday of interfering with police in the investigation.
The man, Owen Gage Walker, 20, was to be a key witness in the trial of Derrick Del Reed, 19, of Lawrence, in March of 2024. Reed was charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of 14-year-old Kamarjay Shaw after Shaw was shot in ...
A Boy Scout troop preparing for a campout recently found Douglas County’s Camp Bromelsick in disarray. To their shock, someone had completely emptied a work shed of thousands of dollars in equipment and had cut down nearby trees.
“Walking into the shed after the theft was like a scene from 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas,'” Michael Riling, with the Camp Bromelsick Foundation, told the Journal-World.
The ...
A three-week double homicide trial has been continued just five days before it was set to begin, and now won't take place for another six months after the defense failed to secure a medical expert in time.
The trial for Rodney Ericson Marshall, 54, of Lawrence, was first delayed in January after his defense attorneys, Cline Boone and Matthew Cohen, had yet to receive medical documents related to one of ...
