A Lawrence man was scheduled to be sentenced to prison on Wednesday in connection with the fentanyl overdose death of a Lawrence teen but the hearing was continued after the man discovered that he could be sentenced to three times longer than he had agreed to.
The man, Benjamin L. Mims, 36, pleaded guilty in May to one felony count of voluntary manslaughter and one felony count of unlawful distribution of ...
If you ask Marlo Angell, the director of Lawrence's Free State Festival, what it takes to get viewers off of their couch and into a movie theater, the answer is simple: community experiences you can't get at home.
And this coming week's festival has plenty of unique experiences — both on the screen, like a feature about hunting squirrels, and off the screen, like movie and candy pairings, live performance art ...
Updated at 10:15 a.m. Friday, June 21
A Topeka man was killed in a crash Friday morning after being ejected from his vehicle on I-70 west of Lawrence.
Nash McKnight, 26, died in the accident. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol crash report, McKnight was driving west around 2:20 a.m. near mile marker 190 in a 2024 Kia Optima when he failed to maintain his lane and sideswiped a 2003 Mercury Grand Marquis ...
A former Lawrence school janitor has been charged with sexual exploitation of a child and domestic battery.
The man, Thomas Allen Gallagher, 61, is charged in Douglas County District Court with one felony count of sexually exploiting a child by possessing a photograph of the child in the nude and one misdemeanor count of domestic battery, according to charging documents. The charges are in connection with ...
A Lawrence man pleaded no contest on Thursday in Douglas County District Court to two child pornography-related crimes.
Rich Anthony Dibenedetto, 31, was charged with two felonies: one was exploitation of a child by possessing a photograph of a child in the nude, and the other was internet trading in child pornography. On Thursday, Judge Sally Pokorny accepted Dibenedetto’s no contest plea on both of those ...
A Lawrence man who was originally charged with attempted murder in a domestic incident was instead convicted only of two lesser crimes on Tuesday as part of a plea agreement.
The charges against Shane Jamarr White, 46, had alleged that he attempted to stab a 73-year-old man on May 31, 2022, and that a 76-year-old man tried to intervene and was injured. The 73-year-old man was not injured, police said at the ...
