Updated at 5:55 p.m. Tuesday, June 6
The Lawrence Police Department responded to three suspected fentanyl overdoses Monday night, one of them fatal, prompting the department to hold a news conference Tuesday afternoon to raise awareness about the deadliness of the drug.
The first overdose call came in about 9:30 p.m. Monday in the 900 block of Connecticut Street, and the 39-year-old man was pronounced dead at ...
A Lawrence man was set for trial Tuesday in Douglas County District Court on charges of kidnapping and aggravated sexual battery, but entered a last-minute plea, sending the jury home.
The man, Isaiah Jamin Duckworth, 35, was ordered to stand trial in February on one count of kidnapping and one count of aggravated sexual battery, both felonies, after a preliminary hearing in which a 16-year-old girl testified ...
A Lawrence man serving prison time for identity theft has been charged in Douglas County District Court with the rape of a 7-year-old.
The man, George Joseph Burgess Jr., 44, is facing one count of rape and three counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child, according to charging documents. The charges are all off-grid felonies, and each could come with a life sentence if Burgess is convicted. The ...
A Eudora man was sentenced to probation Monday in connection with an incident in 2020 in which he was alleged to have sexually assaulted a woman in her home.
The man, Griffin D. Oxley, 22, entered a no contest plea to one felony count of aggravated sexual battery in April, according to court records. He was originally charged with one count of rape of a 34-year-old woman around 8 p.m. at the woman’s home on ...
A Lawrence man entered a no contest plea Monday in Douglas County District Court to two counts of sexual battery as part of a plea agreement in which the state dismissed additional sex crimes involving teenage girls.
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, the state increased ...
A Lawrence man's bond was set at $1 million after prosecutors argued that he was a threat to the public and to his alleged 65-year-old victim.
Tahreon Lamont Allen, 20, was charged with one count of aggravated kidnapping, aggravated robbery with a handgun, aggravated burglary and possession of a firearm by a felon, all felonies, according to charging documents. The charges are in connection with an incident on ...
