An Alabama man waived his right to a preliminary hearing on Thursday and was ordered to stand trial on sexual extortion charges.
The man, Devaris Lamar Howard, 20, of Gadsden, Alabama, is charged in Douglas County District Court with two felony counts of sexual extortion of a then 18-year-old woman by communicating a threat to injure her reputation by distributing an image or video of her in the nude, according ...
Updated at 2:23 p.m. Wednesday, March 22, 2023
A Lawrence man who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for a DUI crash on New Year’s Day in 2022 was sentenced Wednesday to more than nine years in prison.
The man, Adrian Joel Martinez, 39, pleaded guilty on Jan. 31 in Douglas County District Court to felony involuntary manslaughter while driving under the influence and felony aggravated battery while ...
A mobile home was destroyed and one person was taken to the hospital after a fire in a mobile home park in Eudora Tuesday morning.
Eudora crews responded to a mobile home on fire at 501 E. 10th St., Lot B3, at the Grandview Mobile Home Park, around 8 a.m. to find the residence “fully involved,” meaning fire was showing from all of the windows on the structure, said Chief Mindy Andrasevits with the Eudora ...
Douglas County sheriff’s deputies arrested one man Tuesday after a vehicle pursuit ended in a field north of Lawrence.
The chase began just before noon after deputies observed a Dodge Caravan driving recklessly in North Lawrence near the turnpike, said spokesperson George Diepenbrock with the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office. The vehicle matched the description of a vehicle that Lawrence police suspected to ...
A Lawrence teen accused of murder in the shooting death of another teen plans to argue that he acted in self-defense under Kansas' "stand your ground" law, his attorney said Tuesday in Douglas County District Court.
Derrick Del Reed, 17, who is charged with one count of first-degree murder, appeared in court via Zoom on Tuesday, and attorneys discussed when to hear two motions that had been filed in the case ...
This story was updated at 4:17 p.m. on Monday, March 20, 2023. The original version can be found below.
A 14-year old Lawrence boy is dead after a Saturday evening shooting in eastern Lawrence, while on Monday another teen has been charged with first-degree murder in the case.
Law enforcement responded to the 1100 block of East 13th Street at about 5 p.m. after receiving reports of a shooting in the area. Law ...
