Updated at 3:53 p.m. Friday, Nov. 24, 2023
A 40-year-old Lawrence woman was researching homeless camps when she was killed by a train on Thanksgiving morning, and a friend who was on the phone with her at the time of her death wants the community to know that it was “absolutely not a suicide."
The woman, Chansi Rose Long, had spent the nights leading up to Thanksgiving staying in various camps around ...
It's been 60 years since President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. On Wednesday, the Journal-World asked some Lawrence residents what they were doing and how they felt when they heard the news.
Ed Heinen was a freshman at Kansas State University at the time Kennedy was shot.
“There's kind of an indelible mark on my mind. One of those things you can remember exactly,” ...
Douglas County’s new Public Defenders Office is hoping to become a force in the community for helping people accused of felonies to understand their rights and to navigate the often daunting criminal justice system.
The new office, the Seventh Judicial District Public Defender Office, is right next to the Judicial and Law Enforcement Center in downtown Lawrence. It's home to six attorneys and six support ...
A woman testified on Tuesday in Douglas County District Court that her fiancé who is accused in the shooting deaths of two men was talking about an alien attack in the weeks preceding the incident.
Rodney E. Marshall, 52, faces two counts of first-degree murder, five counts of attempted capital murder of a law enforcement officer and one count of attempted murder of a civilian, according to charging ...
Surveillance footage presented to the court during a hearing on Monday indicates a homicide suspect was the last person seen with a Lawrence man who was found bludgeoned to death with a wooden board.
The suspect, Chadwick Elliot Potter, 34, is charged in Douglas county District Court with one count of murder in the first degree in connection with the death of David Blaine Sullivan, 62, of Lawrence, who was ...
A man who spent over five years in the Douglas County Jail accused of a brutal murder before his case was ultimately dismissed has pleaded guilty in a robbery case in Topeka in which he was accused of striking a store clerk with a gun.
The man, Rontarus Washington Jr., 27, of Topeka, was charged in Shawnee County District Court with one felony count each of aggravated robbery, aggravated battery, felony ...
