A new attorney is on board for the man who will go on trial a second time in the Motel 6 murder case. Instead of January as initially planned, a new trial is now scheduled to begin April 22, 2019. In July, a jury convicted two men of manslaughter in the case but couldn’t agree on a verdict for the third co-defendant, 19-year-old Shawn K. Smith, of Kansas City, Mo. Because of the hung jury, Douglas County ...
Marzetta Yarbrough carries a thick, inches-long scar on her left cheek, and another smaller scar near it. Those are remnants, as Yarbrough put it, “from the gunshot ripping my face open.” The same shooting on July 2 at 713 W. 25th St. also left Jeremy Jones with outwardly visible permanent injury. Jones now uses a wheelchair. A bullet hit his left side and traveled nearly all the way through his ...
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 238 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 ...
A woman convicted of murder for mowing down two construction workers with her pickup is seeking executive clemency. Within days of public notice being published, feedback on Ramona Morgan’s quest had already started coming in. Whether that feedback is pro-pardon or anti-pardon, the Kansas Department of Corrections Prisoner Review Board can’t share at this time, board administrator Ashley Maxwell said. ...
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. Sunday to 6 a.m. Monday and includes 139 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 ...
A former Douglas County Sheriff’s Office deputy admitted he had sexual encounters with a female inmate in his office at the jail and in his personal car on the streets of Lawrence, according to an outside law enforcement investigation of the deputy, who is facing unlawful sexual relations charges as a result. The deputy was in charge of the inmate work release program at the Douglas County Jail. The inmate ...