A 34-year-old man was convicted on Tuesday in Douglas County District Court of trying to kill his grandfather last summer by firing multiple bullets into his Lawrence residence.
The defendant, Douglas Adam Speight, was originally charged with attempted first-degree murder in the June 3, 2025, incident, but pleaded no contest Tuesday to attempted voluntary manslaughter with a firearm — a plea agreement that ...
A property manager for a landlord accused of numerous child sex crimes testified on Monday that the landlord asked him to procure sworn affidavits from the alleged victims "recanting their story."
According to the state, the 74-year-old landlord, Mark Duane Strand, dangled the promise of college scholarships as an inducement for two individuals to disavow their claims and to refuse to testify against him, ...
Numerous repairs were underway at a Lawrence appliance store Monday afternoon after it was struck by a car earlier in the day.
Jack Flynn, the sales manager at Stoneback Appliance, 925 Iowa St., told the Journal-World that the incident at around 10 a.m. happened very quickly. He initially thought the incredibly loud noise he heard was a display of dishwashers falling over in the store, but he soon realized a ...
A Douglas County judge on Friday denied a murder defendant's claim that he should be immune from prosecution based on self-defense.
The denial came in a nearly four-year-old case in which Rodney Marshall, 55, is accused of murdering two men in July 2022 and attempting to murder multiple police officers as he fled Lawrence on Kansas Highway 10.
Self-defense is the most recent of several explanations he has ...
Updated at 5:20 p.m. Friday, April 3
A Free State High School student who will graduate next month was convicted on Thursday of taking and sharing a nude photo of a special needs student at the school last year.
In a deal with the state, the teen pleaded no contest in Douglas County District Court to the Class A misdemeanor of unlawful transmission of a visual depiction of a child. He had originally been ...
Updated at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 31
Five years ago, the City of Lawrence adopted an ordinance banning so-called conversion therapy, but on Tuesday the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 8 to 1 in a Colorado case that such bans violate the U.S. Constitution.
Conversion therapy generally aims to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity. Usually it takes the form of "converting" a gay person into one ...
