Lawrence police officers briefly served as firefighters Friday night after a man allegedly broke into an apartment and barricaded himself inside before starting the apartment on fire.
Lawrence police responded around 5:30 p.m. on Friday to an apartment complex just south of Sandra Shaw Park in the 900 block of West 2nd Street to a report of a burglary in process, according to a post on social media from the ...
A Lawrence man pleaded guilty on Friday in Douglas County District Court to multiple counts of possessing child pornography.
The man, Michael William Wicks, 54, was charged with felony counts of sexual exploitation of a child by promoting a performance of a child under the age of 14 and aggravated internet trading in child pornography. The sexual exploitation of a child count was charged as an off-grid felony, ...
Jurors will not be sequestered when a Lawrence teen charged with murdering a 14-year-old boy stands trial later this year, and gunshot residue found on the defendant can be admitted as evidence, a judge ruled Friday in Douglas County District Court.
Those were two of several issues that the judge, Sally Pokorny, considered at Friday's hearing in the case of 18-year-old Derrick Del Reed. As the Journal-World ...
Updated at 2:15 p.m. Friday, Feb. 16
A Douglas County jury on Thursday acquitted a Leavenworth man of attempted first-degree murder in a case in which he was accused of shooting a man during a drug deal in 2019.
The jury hung on a count of second-degree attempted murder and attempted robbery, and the state intends to retry the case on those counts.
The defendant, Howard Collins Levite, 32, was charged with ...
A Leavenworth man charged with attempted murder testified on Wednesday in Douglas County District Court that he had planned to rip off a man who was buying drugs from him but that he ended up shooting the man in self-defense.
The defendant, Howard Collins Levite, 32, faces one felony count of attempted first-degree murder and one felony count of attempted robbery in connection with an incident around 6 p.m. on ...
At a trial on Tuesday in Douglas County District Court, a man described being shot in the stomach during a drug deal outside a Lawrence McDonald's, and people who were at the restaurant recalled the chaotic scene as he tried to get help.
The trial is for Howard Collins Levite, 32, of Leavenworth, who is charged in Douglas County with one felony count of attempted murder and one felony count of attempted ...
