A reluctant witness on Thursday described how a woman fired a shotgun in his car, and the court also heard from law enforcement that she may have tried to get an alleged Aryan Brotherhood member to intimidate the witness.
The woman, Sarah Nicole Larkin, 35, of Kansas City, Missouri, is charged with one felony count of aggravated assault, one felony count of possession of a firearm by a felon and one ...
If it seems like you have heard a lot about violent crimes in Lawrence and Douglas County over the past year, your ears are not deceiving you.
The latest numbers from the Douglas County District Attorney’s Office show that it was a busy year for felonies and violent crimes, with sex crimes, batteries, assaults and criminal threats all hitting five-year highs in the county.
The numbers compiled by District ...
A Douglas County jury on Friday acquitted a man accused of tying a woman to a bed and raping her.
The man, Thomas J. Cormier, 22, of Maple Grove, Minnesota, was charged with one count of rape, which was alleged to have occurred at his Lawrence apartment in October of 2021, as the Journal-World reported.
A jury of four women and eight men returned a not guilty verdict after nearly a day and a half of ...
A Lawrence man charged with murder in connection with the shooting deaths of two men last summer has indicated he wants a hearing to argue that he acted in self-defense, and he dismissed one of his two attorneys on Friday.
Rodney Ericson Marshall, 52, is charged with 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 ...
The case of a man accused of raping a woman in his Lawrence apartment in 2021 is now in the hands of a Douglas County jury.
Jurors began deliberating Thursday in the case of Thomas J. Cormier, 22, of Maple Grove, Minnesota, who has been charged with one count of rape based on an incident that allegedly occurred in October 2021, when a woman, now 22, says he escalated a situation that began consensually into a ...
A Lawrence woman was charged with arson on Monday in connection with a fire in a trash container in downtown Lawrence.
The woman, Jill Elizabeth Walkinshaw, 62, has been charged in Douglas County District Court with one felony count of arson, according to charging documents. The incident is alleged to have occurred early Sunday morning.
Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical crews responded to the intersection ...
