Defense attorneys requested — and a judge denied on Friday — a new trial for a man who earlier this year was found guilty of murder in a downtown Lawrence shooting.
A jury in July found Nicholas Beaver guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting death of Vincent Lee Walker on March 6, 2024, in front of the Lawrence Public Library. At trial, defense attorney Razmi Tahirkheli argued that Beaver was acting ...
A call comes in for a disturbance in Centennial Park. Lawrence police are on their way, but what dispatchers haven’t been told – and officers therefore don’t know – is that the suspect is armed with a baseball bat.
“We don’t want that to become an escalating confrontation,” Sgt. Drew Fennelly told the Lawrence City Commission on Tuesday night.
And it didn’t – in part because police were ...
Earlier this month, a Prairie Park Elementary School student told forensic investigators about a “test” that a speech therapist at their school had made them take — one that required them to be blindfolded with Band-Aids and tape and to have their hands bound behind their back.
Then, while restrained and unable to see, the child said the therapist moved a “long, cylindrical” object around inside their ...
To a special prosecutor who compiled an ethics complaint against her, Douglas County District Attorney Suzanne Valdez is someone who has accused a judge of being sexist, sent him inappropriate texts, and created a stressful work environment that drove many of her employees to resign.
But Valdez on Tuesday had a different story to tell. What really happened, she said, was that she made general statements about ...
