The Kansas Court of Appeals on Friday affirmed the rape conviction of a Lawrence man who was found guilty in 2021 of assaulting a houseguest. Erick Ogwangi, now 39, was accused of violently forcing himself on a 26-year-old woman who was a guest in his home in 2017. In 2021, he was convicted by a Douglas County jury of one count of rape after about an hour of deliberations. After the trial, Ogwangi appealed ...
An unhoused man has been charged after a woman reported that he stabbed her in the leg during an argument at a Lawrence campsite on Wednesday night. The man, Joseph Leonard Klebenstein, 32, is charged in Douglas County District Court with one felony count of aggravated battery, one felony count of possession of methamphetamine and one misdemeanor count of possession of drug paraphernalia, according to charging ...
It's one thing to study a list of words for a spelling bee. But it's another thing entirely to memorize more than a hundred facts about geography, Latin, science and more and recite them on cue. That's exactly what 12-year-old Wyatt Markham, of Lawrence, is preparing to do in next month's National Memory Master Competition in North Carolina. Wyatt is one of just 16 kids who will compete for a $10,000 prize on ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours. Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity up to 6 a.m. on the date listed and extending back to 6 a.m. on the previous day. Each listing includes a date, time and general address followed by a short description of the call's nature. Lawrence police incident numbers are also included, as ...
Jurors saw gruesome photos on Tuesday of a man who was killed in downtown Lawrence last summer — including images of his smashed skull and bleeding in his brain — on the second day of a murder trial in Douglas County District Court. The trial is for 35-year-old Chadwick Elliot Potter, a transient who is charged with one count of second-degree murder in the death of David Blaine Sullivan, 62, of Lawrence. ...
A hearing to charge a Kansas City teenager as an adult with murder in connection the shooting death of a Lawrence girl was canceled on Monday, and the next court date scheduled is for a plea hearing. The teen, Davon D. Washington, 17, of Kansas City, Missouri, is charged in Johnson County Juvenile Court with one felony count of second-degree unintentional but reckless murder and one misdemeanor count of a ...