A murder trial for a man accused of bludgeoning another man near downtown Lawrence began on Monday, and the state said it’s case is based on circumstantial evidence.
On trial is Chadwick Elliot Potter, 35, who is a transient who has lived in numerous states throughout the years and told police he only arrived in Lawrence a few weeks prior to the alleged murder. He was originally charged with one count of ...
A man is alleged to have threatened staff and broken an office window at the The Village on Sunday after he was denied entry.
Just after 9 p.m. Sunday officers responded to The Village, 256 N. Michigan St., after staff at the site for people experiencing homelessness called to report that they had been threatened, said Sgt. Drew Fennelly with the Lawrence Police Department in an email.
The man had tried to ...
A Topeka man was sentenced to 18 years in prison on Tuesday in Douglas County District Court for an armed robbery in Lawrence in 2017.
The defendant, Darren Logan Henry, 31, was convicted in January of one felony count of aggravated robbery using a handgun. The incident occurred on Sept. 5, 2017, at a Kwik Shop at 845 Mississippi St., where Henry pointed a gun at the store clerk, demanded money, then fled, ...
An Oskaloosa man had turned himself in earlier this month and posted bond, but when he was set to appear in court on an obstruction charge on Wednesday connected to the shooting death of a Lawrence teen, he failed to appear, again.
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 ...
Charges have been dismissed for one of the four teen girls who were charged with obstruction after the shooting death of a 14-year-old boy.
The girl, whose age was not provided but who was born in 2008, was charged with one felony count of obstruction of apprehension and one felony count of interference with law enforcement, according to charging documents. The obstruction charge alleged that the girl helped ...
An Alabama man was sentenced to over three years in prison on Thursday for threatening to post nude images of a woman online in exchange for more nude images.
The man, Devaris Lamar Howard, 21, of Gadsden, Alabama, was convicted of one count of sexual extortion for blackmailing a woman into sending him nude images on Nov. 8, 2023, in connection with a series of incidents between Aug. 30, 2022, and Oct. 11, ...
