The last defendant in a group of people who robbed and shot a Lawrence man in his apartment on December 2017 is headed to prison. Though he wasn’t accused of pulling the trigger, Michael R. Smith, 28, of Kansas City, Mo., was one of five people who barged into the apartment to rob the 21-year-old man. Smith was sentenced Friday to 26 months, or just over two years, in prison followed by a year of ...
A Lawrence man went to jail overnight after allegedly hitting his neighbor with a hatchet — the blunt side — police said. The two neighbors had an “ongoing dispute,” and the altercation stemmed from that, Officer Shawn Gross said, in an email. After being called by other neighbors, police responded just before 9 p.m. Wednesday to the reported fight in the 2600 block of Winterbrook Drive, Gross said. ...
The Douglas County district attorney says he plans to file a motion to get an attempted murder suspect back in jail, after the man was arrested on new lower-severity charges over the weekend and released on a matching low bond. DA Charles Branson said he also wanted to discuss changing procedures that allowed Alfred D. Sanders to post bond and get out of jail before Branson’s office was notified that he was ...
The University of Kansas is paying a former student-athlete $40,000 to settle her lawsuit against the school, in which she claimed mold in vents to her dorm room made her sick. Though the university still denies her claims, it will pay Laine R. Evans $20,000 and her attorneys $20,000 to settle the suit without going to trial, according to an agreement obtained by the Journal-World through a Kansas Open Records ...
A new trial date has been set for a Lawrence man who shot and killed another man on his doorstep. On Tuesday, Douglas County District Court Judge Kay Huff scheduled the murder trial against Steven A. Drake III, 22, to begin Aug. 19. It’s expected to last a week and a half. The trial has been delayed a number of times over the past year, most recently at Drake’s request after “new developments,” which ...
Story updated: 10:47 a.m. Tuesday, June 4, 2019. A man charged with attempted murder for allegedly shooting up a moving car with people inside — who’s been out on bond more than a year — was arrested this weekend for allegedly having a stolen gun and illegal drugs. After posting a comparatively low bond in the new case, the suspect was released again, according to jail records. It’s two more weeks ...