The attorney for a man who was acquitted at trial Thursday in Douglas County District Court on Friday blasted news coverage of his case and said he would request a change of venue for the man's next trial, which was scheduled to begin on Feb. 18.
Razmi Tahirkheli, the attorney for 28-year-old Elijah Garcia, told Judge Stacey Donovan that "negative" and "wrong" things had been printed about Garcia in "that ...
A man who had originally been charged with distributing a drug that caused a 39-year-old Lawrence man's death pleaded no contest on Friday to the lesser crime of simple distribution of fentanyl.
Harlan Epps had been charged in the overdose death of Justin Jones, who died in his home on June 5, 2023. On Friday, Senior Assistant District Attorney Eve Kemple and Epps' defense attorney, Angela Keck, presented a ...
No basis exists for a gunman to claim immunity from prosecution in the Jan. 17 shootings at The Hawk, a Douglas County prosecutor has written, citing video and witness accounts in the case.
The 18-year-old shooter, Daitron Daniels Strickland, has claimed that he was acting in self-defense when he fatally shot another 18-year-old outside the Lawrence bar on Ohio Street and critically wounded a 16-year-old. ...
Updated at 3:15 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 5
A man accused of beating and pistol-whipping people in a car and again on his front lawn was found not guilty Thursday of all six felony charges, including aggravated battery, in Douglas County District Court.
The jury of five men and seven women returned the verdicts after deliberating for just over three hours in the case of Elijah J. Garcia, of Lawrence, whose trial ...
A man accused of violently beating and pistol-whipping people in a car and again on his front lawn testified Wednesday that he was actually the victim, not the aggressor, on a September night in 2024 as the group returned to Lawrence from an Oktoberfest event in Topeka.
Elijah J. Garcia, of Lawrence, told a Douglas County jury that he had simply been acting in self-defense after the driver and the driver's ...
A Texas man targeted a 10-year-old Lawrence girl with sexually graphic messages and persuaded her to participate in an exchange of nude photos and videos, according to the man's recently released arrest affidavit.
Dominik Smith, 21, of Irving, Texas, was charged in December 2025 with electronic solicitation of a child under the age of 14 and sexual exploitation of a child between 14 and 18 years old. Both ...
