Updated story - June 25 — Jury finds Topeka man guilty of 3 downtown Lawrence murders The process of choosing the people who will decide the case of Anthony L. Roberts Jr. — the Topeka man charged with three murders in the 2017 shootings on Massachusetts Street — will continue into a third day. After the second day of jury selection for the trial, about 60 potential jurors remained in the group at ...
A Lawrence man was arrested on suspicion of arson in connection with a fire that damaged a house in eastern Lawrence Monday afternoon. The fire was reported at 12:30 p.m. at 1405 E. 15th St. Firefighters got the blaze out quickly and said it was confined to the first floor and caused an estimated $2,500 in damage. No one was hurt. The fire was determined to be purposely set, police Sgt. Amy Rhoads said in an ...
A woman told police that a former University of Kansas football player got mad when he lost a video game and then attacked her — “strangling” her then pointing a loaded shotgun in her face — according to an affidavit. The incident occurred and 19-year-old Kenny E. Bastida was arrested in the early morning hours of May 15 at Stouffer Place Apartments, 1835 Ousdahl Road, one of KU’s on-campus housing ...
Updated story - June 11 — Man arrested on arson charges from house fire in eastern Lawrence Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical is investigating the cause of a Monday afternoon fire at an eastern Lawrence home. The fire was reported at 12:30 p.m. in a house at 1405 E. 15th St., according to a news release from Division Chief Lyle Schwartz. Firefighters arriving at the scene encountered a fire in the ...
The University of Kansas chancellor reported for jury duty first thing Monday morning at Douglas County District Court — and got picked. Chancellor Douglas Girod wasn’t pulled away from his usual day job for weeks on this case, though. The defendant was charged with a single misdemeanor, a sexual battery that occurred in 2018, according to court records. And he was tried, convicted and sentenced all by ...
After a night of heavy drinking among a small group of acquaintances, a woman went to bed with her boyfriend but awoke hours later to another man raping her, according to a police affidavit. The woman called police right after the September 2018 incident. Following an investigation that included waiting on lab results from the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, 22-year-old Lawrence resident Gregory E. Esquivel ...