A 39-year-old man accused of rape and other crimes was declared incompetent to stand trial Tuesday in Douglas County District Court. In April, a psychologist at Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center, Sara Godinez, determined that defendant Kevin Renee Robertson was competent to stand trial — that is, she concluded that he was able to understand the charges against him and to assist in his own defense. ...
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 ...
It was scorchingly hot on Sunday, but these bikers "ride in anything, rain or shine — for the kids" as Dragonfly put it, and on this day they roared into Lawrence to give a young man what he would later call "the best day of my life." That young man, Shawn Collier, thought his family was going to South Park in the July heat only to celebrate his mom's birthday. When they got there he noticed a group of bikers ...
A teenager who was set to stand trial in less than two weeks for allegedly raping and sodomizing a Lawrence 5-year-old accepted a plea deal Thursday in Douglas County District Court. The teen, who was 14 when the crime occurred on Nov. 17, 2024, pleaded no contest to an amended count of aggravated indecent liberties with a child. Even though his victim was 5 years old, she is listed in the amended complaint as ...
After a group of young men were escorted out of a Lawrence bar for being underage, they met up with a KU student and bought wristbands from him that purported to show they were at least 21 and that enabled their entry. Two hours later, the group would be connected to two shootings at the bar, one of them fatal. That's according to the partially redacted arrest affidavit for Hunter J. Noravong, the KU student ...
A maintenance man for an apartment complex in southwest Lawrence reportedly shot and killed a group of raccoons in the complex's dumpster — in front of children — and now could face charges of animal cruelty and unlawful discharge of a firearm. The incident occurred Friday at Village at West End, a complex at 4410 Clinton Parkway operated by Midwest Property Management. Laura McCabe, a spokeswoman for the ...