A Minnesota man was killed in a car accident on Interstate 70 in Douglas County, according to a Kansas Highway Patrol crash report.
David Lee Woelfle, 50, of Lino Lakes, Minn., was driving a Ram ProMaster near the 199 mile marker on I-70 when he hit a deer around 2 a.m. Sunday, according to the report. That’s in between the McDonald Drive and Kansas Highway 10 interchanges.
Woelfle reportedly lost control ...
A Lawrence man reportedly told police that he robbed a payday loan store because he was about to get evicted from his apartment.
Joeseph M. Splechter, 27, allegedly turned himself in — along with most of the cash — to Lawrence police the day after a robbery was reported at Check Into Cash, 2108 W. 27th St., according to court documents.
Splechter has been charged with one count of robbery, a ...
A drunken Christmas house party came to an abrupt end when an attendee reportedly woke to find a man raping one of the hosts, who was unconscious, court documents allege.
Andrew Elliott Ferguson, 22, of Lawrence, is a student at the University of Kansas School of Pharmacy, according to court records. He is charged in Douglas County District Court with one count of raping a victim who is unconscious or ...
A girl reportedly told a social worker that a Lawrence man touched her sexually under the guise of a “massage.”
She shouldn’t tell anyone what happened because massages were “really expensive” and she was "lucky" to get one for free, he also allegedly told her.
Shawn Paul O’Brien, 48, of Lawrence, has been charged in Douglas County District Court with one count of aggravated indecent liberties ...
Defense attorneys in a long-pending Lawrence murder case said Friday that they want an independent lab to complete additional DNA testing in the case to avoid what they call the “obvious bias” of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation.
Rontarus Washington Jr., 23, is charged with first-degree murder in connection with the Nov. 7, 2014, death of 19-year-old Justina Altamirano Mosso, who was his neighbor at ...
The Douglas County district attorney’s office has dropped a case against a woman charged in connection with an alleged fight while cooking, court records show.
Roslyn M. Colum, 37, was charged with three counts of aggravated battery, a felony, and misdemeanor criminal damage to property after an alleged Nov. 8, 2019, fight with a neighbor in an apartment in the 500 block of Graystone Drive.
In court ...
