A driver struck a mail truck north of Lawrence on Thursday, sending a mail carrier to the hospital and briefly closing a rural road. Douglas County Sheriff's Office spokesman George Diepenbrock said in a news release that at about 1 p.m., a 2008 Hyundai Accent hit the mail truck in the 2000 block of East 1400 Road, north of Midland Junction and near the Jefferson County line. The mail carrier was taken to a ...
A January 2025 trial date was set on Thursday for a man charged with murder in the shooting deaths of two Lawrence men nearly two years ago. The defendant, Rodney E. Marshall, 52, was charged in Douglas County District Court with two counts of first-degree murder, five counts of attempted capital murder of a law enforcement officer, one count of attempted murder of a civilian and one count of fleeing from ...
A judge did not punish a 15-year-old boy on Thursday after he admitted to posting a screenshot from YouTube of a court proceeding in a murder case. The murder case was that of Derrick Del Reed, 18, of Lawrence, who was charged with one count of first-degree murder in connection with the shooting death of Kamarjay Shaw on March 18, 2023. Reed was acquitted by a Douglas County jury in March, as the Journal-World ...
Two Lawrence men were sentenced to prison time on Wednesday — one to more than six years and another to just over 17 years — in connection with a fatal shooting that took place in 2021 during a drug deal. The men, Javier Isidro Romero, 20, and Andrel Darnell Spates Jr., 22, both of Lawrence, were each originally charged with one count of murder in the first degree in connection with the death of ...
An Oskaloosa man who was wanted for obstruction in connection with the shooting death of a 14-year-old Lawrence boy has turned himself in. The man, Camdon Joe Collins, 21, is charged in Douglas County District Court with one felony count of obstructing apprehension or prosecution by knowingly helping a person charged with a felony escape or avoid conviction or punishment. The charging document alleges that ...
A Lawrence man has been charged with multiple sex crimes involving a 6-year-old child, according to court documents. The man, Joseph Adam Long, 41, is charged in Douglas County District Court with one count of aggravated criminal sodomy and one count of aggravated indecent liberties with a child. Both charges are off-grid felonies that could result in a life sentence if Long is convicted. The alleged offenses ...