Lawrence police arrested two drivers on suspicion of DUI and reported two other drug possession arrests or citations from the department’s most recent special enforcement effort. Saturday’s DUI saturation patrol put four extra officers on the streets, three in patrol vehicles and one in the department’s Breath Alcohol Testing, or BAT, van as a support vehicle, Officer Shawn Gross said in an email. The ...
A Topeka man found guilty of murdering a Lawrence man at Perry Lake has been ordered to life in prison, with no chance at parole for 50 years. Jonathan D. Blevins was sentenced to the “Hard 50” Thursday in Jefferson County District Court, County Attorney Joshua Ney said. On March 13 in Oskaloosa, a jury convicted Blevins of first-degree premeditated murder in the March 14, 2018, shooting death of Taylor ...
A man who attacked and raped two women on foot after dark in Lawrence in 1981 has, again, been denied parole. After serving nearly 40 years in prison, Sherman L. Galloway, 59, will serve at least seven more. Galloway’s next chance to be considered for parole will come in spring 2026, according to Joe Phillips, Prisoner Review Board administrator for the Kansas Department of Corrections. Phillips said in an ...
Madyson Gray’s first wrestling season was spent, as her dad puts it, “basically getting her head pounded into the mat relentlessly.” She lost almost every match. “It hurt to watch, you know?” Darin Gray said. “I thought she was done.” But Mady didn’t want to quit and find a new sport. Instead, she doubled down. “I wanted to get better,” she said. “I wanted to prove people wrong. There ...
Story updated 8:15 p.m. Friday, April 19, 2019. A missing woman and her young son were found "safe and unharmed" Friday evening, police said about eight hours after asking the public for help locating them. At about 11:45 a.m. Friday, police asked the public for help in finding Felicia Miner, 22, and her son Dominic Miner, 3. At the time, police said Miner and Dominic might have been in the company of an ...
A Baldwin City man has been sentenced to four years in prison for involuntary manslaughter of his father-in-law, who died taking methadone to help the younger man cheat on a drug test. At Friday’s sentencing hearing for 35-year-old Justin R. Jones, loved ones of his victim, 47-year-old Eric S. Everts, of Baldwin City, had asked for more prison time. Speakers described Jones as not only addicted but depraved ...