Updated at 4:25 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 2 A Lawrence woman was charged on Thursday in connection with the fentanyl overdose death of a 26-year-old man in 2022. The woman, Terriana Audry Atkinson, 25, is charged in Douglas County District Court with one felony count of distribution of a controlled substance causing death, according to charging documents. The charges are in connection with the overdose death of ...
Improper use of incense was blamed for causing a house fire on Wednesday afternoon in East Lawrence, but fire crews contained the flames to a laundry room, and no injuries or major damage were reported. Firefighters were dispatched to a house in the 900 block of Pennsylvania Street just after 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday to a report of a fire, said Fire Chief Rich Llewellyn in an email to the Journal-World. ...
A Kansas City, Kansas, man was arrested Thursday morning after allegedly leading police on a car chase while drunk and crashing into a fence at an apartment complex in northern Lawrence. Lawrence Police Sgt. Drew Fennelly said in an email that at about 1:05 a.m., an officer saw a four-door sedan commit multiple traffic violations after exiting a shopping center at 601 Kasold Drive. The officer suspected that ...
The family of a man who was killed in a DUI crash shared their grief Wednesday in Douglas County District Court at the sentencing for the driver who was convicted of his murder. Anthony Michael Royal, 56, of Lawrence, pleaded guilty in August to one felony count of murder in the second degree and one felony count of DUI for his third or more conviction, as the Journal-World reported. The charges relate to a ...
A Lawrence man pleaded guilty on Wednesday in Douglas County District Court to three felonies in connection with a series of violent domestic abuse incidents in which he reportedly punched, cut and dragged a woman by her hair. As part of a plea agreement, the state dismissed numerous other charges. The man, Yusaf Ali Austin, 50, was charged with 12 felonies, including two counts of aggravated battery, one count ...
A Lawrence man was scheduled to be sentenced on Monday in connection with sex crimes involving a 16-year-old victim but instead told the court he had been “forced” into entering a plea and wants to withdraw the plea and go to trial. The man, Richard Eugene Marshall, 49, was originally charged with multiple counts of aggravated endangerment of a child but after his preliminary hearing in October of 2021, ...