A hearing in Douglas County District Court was delayed on Friday for a Lawrence teen accused in a shooting after the victim failed to appear to testify. The teen, Cameron Jay Cooper, 18, is charged with one count of aggravated battery in connection with a shooting on Nov. 11, 2024, around 7:45 p.m. at 3323 Iowa St., the address of Easy Living mobile home park. According to an affidavit in support of ...
An Olathe man was granted probation on Thursday for his part in a 2019 armed robbery and home invasion, for which his co-defendants have been serving time in prison for years. The man, Anei Deng Anei-Yor, 27, pleaded guilty to three felony counts of robbery in November 2024, and Judge Stacey Donovan sentenced him on Thursday to 64 months in prison and suspended that sentence to three years of probation. ...
A Lawrence man’s attempted murder charge has been dismissed for now because the state has been unable to locate the alleged victim. Christopher Coty Maier, 37, was charged with one felony count of attempted second-degree murder in connection with a stabbing on Dec. 28, 2022, in the 300 block of Maine Street near Sandra J. Shaw Park, as the Journal-World reported. On Thursday, he was scheduled for a ...
A Lawrence man was granted probation on Wednesday in two cases, one in which he was accused of threatening a family with a handgun at a laundromat, and another in which he was accused of choking his mother while out on bond. In November 2024 in Douglas County District Court, 28-year-old Cadence Elijah Nunez-Ruckman entered a plea agreement to resolve both cases, pleading no contest to possession of ...
A Lawrence 18-year-old charged in connection with a shooting last November told police he was defending himself after a marijuana deal that went wrong, according to a recently released police affidavit in the case. The affidavit describes the allegations against 18-year-old Cameron Jay Cooper, of Lawrence, who is charged with one felony count of aggravated battery in an incident that took place on Nov. 11, ...
It's a classic setup, one that's more than 15 years old — Busker Festival organizer Richard Renner finds a bunch of weird and wacky folks and brings them to perform in downtown Lawrence for a few days. But the punchline is that this time, they're not street performers — they're stand-up comics with a host of specials, late-night TV spots and podcasts under their belts. Renner will be putting on the ...