A Kansas City, Kansas, man was charged Wednesday in Douglas County District Court with aggravated assault and other crimes after allegedly holding a woman at gunpoint and refusing to put down a child while deputies tried to arrest him.
The man, Maurice McKay Edwards, 21, was charged with aggravated assault, felony criminal threat and two misdemeanor counts of endangering a child, according to court ...
The mother of Regan N. Gibbs says her daughter's significant other was controlling and manipulated her through religion before killing her earlier this week at the couple's shared apartment in Lawrence.
The mother, Kristin Gibbs, was in Lawrence Friday with her four other daughters to speak about Regan's death. The four daughters also shared memories of their elder sister.
Kristin Gibbs said her daughter, ...
One of the men involved in Tuesday's deadly Hy-Vee grocery store shooting was a former police officer from Osage County.
Monty Ray Amick, 53, of Lawrence, was killed along with another man after a road-rage incident led to a shooting in the parking lot of the Hy-Vee, 3504 Clinton Parkway.
Amick served as a police officer in two towns in Osage County, which is south of Topeka.
He served in Scranton — a ...
The wife of a convicted child abuser has been charged with child endangerment after not reporting her husband’s crimes in Douglas County.
Lorene Rose Martins, 47, of Lawrence, has been charged with two felony counts of aggravated endangerment of a child and one misdemeanor count of intimidation of a witness, according to court documents. She was booked into the Douglas County Jail on Saturday.
The charges ...
Lawrence police have named the two men who were killed on Tuesday night in a parking lot shooting at west Lawrence's Hy-Vee grocery store and said Wednesday that the deaths stemmed from an apparent road-rage incident.
Zachary Michael Sutton, 22, and Monty Ray Amick, 53, both of Lawrence, died, according to the Lawrence Police Department, which issued a news release Wednesday and also spoke with the press. ...
A Baldwin City man was sentenced Wednesday to 17 months in prison in connection with a vehicle chase in Douglas County.
The man, Tyrone Leroy Alexander, 48, was originally charged with aggravated assault and fleeing from law enforcement in connection with a chase on Dec. 29. In March, he pleaded no contest to the felony charge of fleeing from law enforcement as part of a plea agreement, and the state dropped ...
