A 22-year-old Lawrence man who shot and injured his parents last year is now facing a charge of involuntary manslaughter in Shawnee County.
Dalton Vale Turner was arrested Tuesday morning on a warrant during a traffic stop by Lawrence police. The warrant was out of Shawnee County, where prosecutors late last week charged Turner with involuntary manslaughter while under the influence and also with driving under ...
The director of Theatre Lawrence’s “Young Frankenstein” thought about staging the season opener entirely in shades of gray — gray costumes, gray set, gray props.
That would be a fitting homage to the 1974 Mel Brooks film of the same name, which was memorably shot in black and white to evoke the horror films of the 1930s that Brooks was spoofing.
But that idea was short lived. Good ideas for film, Craig ...
A 57-year-old Lawrence man was found guilty Monday of aggravated indecent liberties with a child for a sex crime that occurred 10 years ago.
The man, Scott W. Waisner, pleaded no contest to one count of aggravated indecent liberties with a child between 14 and 16 years old for an incident on March 1, 2014. He at one time faced five counts of the same crime, all dating to 2014 and involving the same child. ...
A driver was arrested Friday evening after allegedly crashing into a car at a Lawrence restaurant, attempting to flee and then striking one of the car's passengers with his car.
The initial incident occurred just before 7 p.m. in the parking lot of Domino's Pizza at 1008 W. 23rd St.
Lawrence Police spokeswoman Laura McCabe said evidence indicated that the man who was involved and arrested in the incident was ...
An employee of an elder care facility in Lawrence was ordered to stand trial Friday after a judge found probable cause to believe that she had mistreated and stolen thousands of dollars from a resident at the facility.
The defendant, Honesty Trussell, faces felony charges of mistreatment of a dependent adult or elder person and theft stemming from incidents in March and April, when she worked as the life ...
A 25-year-old Lawrence man who reportedly sold 100 fentanyl pills in a single buy to a confidential informant was sentenced to more than eight years in prison Friday in Douglas County District Court.
“Every single pill is a potential death,” prosecutor David Greenwald told Judge Amy Hanley before she pronounced the sentence, emphasizing that the sale in question was just one of many that defendant Jadarrius ...
