A Lawrence man who once was given a reprieve amid a 26-year prison sentence spent the next decade committing new crimes and has now been sentenced to three more years in prison.
Jason Lee Ellison, 42, pleaded no contest in March to one felony count of criminal threat. The charge had originally been filed as an aggravated assault in which he allegedly threatened a man with a piece of lumber on Sept. 25, 2024, ...
A Lawrence man who was a key witness in the death of a 14-year-old boy was granted probation on Thursday for interfering with the police investigation into the shooting.
The man, Owen Gage Walker, 20, of Lawrence, pleaded no contest in March to one felony count of interference as part of a plea agreement that dismissed an additional felony obstruction charge, as the Journal-World reported.
Walker was ...
Dozens of motorcycles and bicycles paraded through Lawrence on Thursday as part of the 2025 Kansas Law Enforcement Ride for the Fallen.
The cyclists were traveling from Leawood to Topeka to honor officers who have died in the past year, said Sgt. Drew Fennelly with the Lawrence Police Department.
According to a release from the Kansas Highway Patrol, the ride was scheduled to end at the Statehouse around 7 ...
A man told a Douglas County judge on Wednesday that he would like to spend his upcoming prison sentence at Larned State Hospital after entering a plea deal that reduced his attempted murder charge in connection with an attack near a North Lawrence homeless camp.
Tristen Lamont Hollins, 43, was charged in Douglas County District Court with one felony count of attempted first-degree murder in connection with the ...
A man testified on Tuesday that he had never met the Lawrence teen who allegedly shot him twice in the leg during a drug deal gone bad and that he still has bullet fragments from the incident in his leg.
Cameron Jay Cooper, 18, of Lawrence, is charged with one felony count each of aggravated robbery and aggravated battery in connection with a shooting on Nov. 11, 2024, around 7:45 p.m. at 3323 Iowa St., the ...
The attorney for a man alleged to have shot at a Baldwin City bar and library with the intent to kill says the man’s confession was coerced and should have been too bizarre for investigators to believe.
The defendant, Junah Augustus Sisney, 22, of Baldwin City, is charged in Douglas County District Court with one count of attempted capital murder. Sisney faces life in prison if he is convicted.
Sisney is ...
