An Overland Park man, his younger brother and their father are all facing charges in connection with the alleged sexual assault of a 17-year-old girl, and one of the men has been ordered to stand trial.
The older brother, Wyatt Farrow, 21, is charged in Douglas County District Court with one felony count each of aggravated criminal sodomy, aggravated sexual battery and providing alcohol to a minor and one ...
The Douglas County District Attorney’s Office has reopened the investigation into an infant’s death in 2016 at a Eudora day care amid an ongoing wrongful-conviction lawsuit. The office claims there's new evidence warranting a new investigation, but it has declined to provide any additional information.
The wrongful-conviction lawsuit was filed in 2023 by Carrody Buchhorn, 49, who was convicted in 2018 of ...
Updated at 10:49 a.m. Monday, March 18
Additional details surrounding a stabbing death at a homeless camp in North Lawrence will not be available anytime soon, because not only was the arrest affidavit in the case sealed, but the motion requesting the secrecy was also sealed.
Julius Robert Beasley, 40, of Lawrence, has been charged in Douglas County District Court with one count of first-degree murder and ...
After spending all of Tuesday deliberating, a Douglas County jury has not yet reached a verdict in the case of an 18-year-old who's accused of fatally shooting another teen.
Derrick Del Reed, 18, of Lawrence, has been on trial for the past week in the March 18, 2023, shooting death of 14-year-old Kamarjay Shaw in the 1300 block of Maple Lane. Reed is charged with first-degree murder, but the jury was given ...
This story was updated at 7:40 p.m. Monday, March 11, 2024.
The defense and prosecution presented closing arguments Monday in the murder trial of teen defendant Derrick Del Reed, after testimony of a woman who claimed to have seen the fatal shot being fired — testimony which the prosecution attempted to discredit based on inconsistencies with video evidence.
Reed, 18, of Lawrence, is charged with one count ...
A teenager on trial in another teen's shooting death tested positive for gunshot residue after the incident, while a man whom the defense has tried to paint as an alternative suspect tested negative, according to forensic analysts who testified on Friday.
The gunshot residue results were one of several pieces of forensic evidence that Kansas Bureau of Investigation analysts presented on Friday in the trial of ...