Community members, service providers and government officials gathered on Tuesday night to begin a series of conversations about improving safety in Lawrence in response to several teens having recently died from gun violence.
Kamarjay Shaw, 14, of Lawrence, was shot and killed on March 18, 2023, in a residential neighborhood after his friend group was feuding with another group. Brianna Higgins, 15, of ...
District Attorney Suzanne Valdez passionately defended her administration at a candidate forum Saturday, denouncing “haters” who have criticized her, while her two opponents in the Democratic primary laid out reform strategies that they said would better serve Douglas County.
"The Douglas County community, no matter the haters in this room, is a model for criminal justice reform across the country,” ...
Updated at 6:06 p.m. Friday, June 28, 2024.
OLATHE — A Kansas City teen was given the maximum sentence Friday for the murder of a 15-year-old Lawrence girl after he shot her in the head while playing with firearms.
The teen, Davon D. Washington, 17, of Kansas City, Missouri, pleaded guilty in May in Johnson County Juvenile Court to one felony count of second-degree unintentional but reckless murder and one ...
A 15-year-old girl testified on Thursday that a 24-year-old man had given her cocaine in exchange for sex and that when he found out how old she was the sex only grew more violent.
The man, Kendrick Deandre Atkins, 25, is charged in Douglas County District Court with one count of rape, two counts of aggravated human trafficking, two counts of criminal sodomy and three counts of aggravated indecent liberties ...
A recently released police affidavit alleges that a man violently strangled another man near the Lawrence Community Shelter, where both men were living.
The defendant, George Miller, 34, is charged in Douglas County District Court with second-degree murder in connection with the strangulation death of Christopher Allen Lickteig, 43, on June 11 at the intersection of 25th Terrace and Franklin Road around 10:30 ...
A Shawnee County Judge denied Rontarus Washington’s request to withdraw his guilty plea on Tuesday in connection with an armed robbery at a gas station and granted him probation.
Washington, 27, pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated battery and one count of attempted robbery on Oct. 31, 2023, as part of a plea agreement, as the Journal-World reported. He was originally facing one felony count each of ...
