Story updated at 7:34 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019:
Two women accused of murdering Joel Wales appeared to be planning something in the weeks, days and hours leading up to the homicide, according to deleted text messages retrieved by law enforcement.
On Nov. 1, 2017, Tria L. Evans texted her cousin Christina L. Towell, “When we taking care of this?”
Two days after that, Evans texted Towell, “When you ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours.
Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Wednesday to 6 a.m. Thursday and includes 180 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and general address followed by a short description of the call's nature.
It's important to remember that each incident ...
Story updated 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2018:
A jilted and obsessive Tria L. Evans asked multiple people to kill her ex in the months before he turned up dead, witnesses testified Wednesday at Evans’ murder trial.
“She had actually asked me to kill him a couple of times,” said one of those witnesses, a man who had a casual dating relationship with Evans in the year before the homicide. “She was like, ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours.
Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Tuesday to 6 a.m. Wednesday and includes 162 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and general address followed by a short description of the call's nature.
It's important to remember that each incident ...
Story updated at 5:54 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019:
Paramedics were called to the Douglas County District Courthouse Wednesday afternoon after a man suffered a medical condition on the witness stand during a murder trial.
The man, who said he was retired but owned a firearms business, was testifying during the trial of Tria L. Evans, 39, of Lawrence, charged with murder and other crimes in the 2017 homicide ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours.
Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Monday to 6 a.m. Tuesday and includes 183 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and general address followed by a short description of the call's nature.
It's important to remember that each incident only ...
