A defendant accused of killing a man and seriously injuring the man’s child in a head-on collision last year pleaded guilty Thursday in Douglas County District Court to reckless second-degree murder and aggravated battery while driving under the influence.
The defendant, Zachary Odom, 30, of Tecumseh, killed Leonard “Skip” Schupp, 51, of Oskaloosa, while driving under the influence on July 18, 2025, on ...
A 20-year-old Lawrence man pleaded not guilty on Thursday in a case in which he is accused of shooting two people earlier this year and endangering others.
The man, Jaystyn James Curtiss, is now scheduled to be tried on Nov. 30.
In an amended complaint filed June 29, the Douglas County District Attorney's Office charged him with two counts of attempted first-degree murder, two counts of aggravated battery, one ...
Updated at 12:40 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 13
Victims' relatives and law enforcement officials hugged one another Thursday after a Douglas County judge sentenced a Lawrence man to consecutive life terms for murdering two men and attempting to murder several more, including police officers who were trying to apprehend him after his violent crime spree four years ago.
The murderer, 55-year-old Rodney Marshall, will ...
A repeat drug offender who was accused in a Lawrence woman’s fentanyl death in 2022 has pleaded guilty in new cases to possessing methamphetamine and to violating the offender registration act.
William Byrd, of Lawrence, recently entered the pleas as part of a deal with the state. In one case from March of this year, the Douglas County District Attorney's Office accepted a guilty plea to felony possession of ...
A man accused of murdering a 35-year-old woman last summer in Lawrence has been declared incompetent to stand trial.
Douglas County District Court records indicate that Aaron Blake Wright, 64, was found unfit for trial earlier this month and was ordered by Judge Amy Hanley to undergo treatment under the supervision of Larned State Hospital.
Generally, a person is deemed incompetent to stand trial when he is ...
Updated at 3:50 p.m. Tuesday, July 28, 2026
A 50-year-old man was charged Tuesday with a felony after passersby accused him of masturbating in public in downtown Lawrence.
The man, Jimmy Lee Hadl, of Lawrence, was arrested early Monday evening at Ninth and Vermont streets. According to the spokeswoman for the Lawrence Police Department, Laura McCabe, someone complained that a man was fondling himself in plain ...
