Story updated at 5:45 p.m. Wednesday, April 24:
A transient man accused of beating a blind man to death in downtown Lawrence told police that he and the man peacefully smoked marijuana together on a July night last year and that he then left the man alive and well near the Kansas River bridge — a narrative that the state disputes with a collection of circumstantial evidence but that the defense has sought to ...
Updated at 3:50 p.m. Tuesday, April 23
Douglas County District Attorney Suzanne Valdez should be censured for unprofessional conduct toward a Douglas County judge, the state’s top panel for attorney discipline is recommending.
A panel for the Kansas Board for Discipline of Attorneys is recommending to the Kansas Supreme Court that Valdez be censured for “undignified or discourteous conduct” toward ...
Shakespearean drama isn’t really Theatre Lawrence’s thing — don’t expect to see Lady Macbeth wringing her guilty hands in West Lawrence — but having fun with Shakespeare most certainly is.
In the last few years, the community theater has produced “Something Rotten,” a musical farce centered on the bard, and “The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged),” a whirlwind romp through ...
One of the steepest hills in Lawrence is about to become a little shorter.
Not so you’d notice — just 4 or 5 feet — but you might appreciate that missing morsel if you’ve ever ridden a bicycle up West 11th Street and felt like your calves would explode.
A $4.2 million project recently got underway on West 11th, one of the main routes between the University of Kansas campus and downtown, resulting in ...
Updated at 11:50 a.m. Wednesday, April 10
A man who is suing the Lawrence City Commission and two former mayors suffered another defeat this week when a federal judge refused to order the commission to temporarily stop enforcing its speech policy at commission meetings.
The man, Justin Spiehs, is a frequent commenter at meetings, and on at least two occasions — in October 2022 and July 2023 — he was ...
A man was convicted of misdemeanor endangerment Friday in Douglas County District Court after he had originally faced a far more serious charge of felony aggravated assault with a knife.
Deonte Darrell Jackson, 35, was on probation on Aug. 24, 2023, when he approached a man in a delivery truck with a knife in downtown Lawrence. The crime he was on probation for at the time was a violent, and seemingly random, ...
