A 31-year-old man was convicted Tuesday of two felonies in connection with an incident last fall in which Lawrence police said several people were held at gunpoint for hours after the defendant claimed money had been stolen from him at an apartment on Michigan Street.
The defendant, Garnel Moore Williams, is now facing more than a decade in prison when he is sentenced on May 28.
Moore Williams was originally ...
Iranians in the Lawrence area expressed a mixture of joy, relief, anxiety and fear after learning that the longtime brutal dictator of their homeland had been assassinated over the weekend.
"We are happy, but it is bittersweet," one University of Kansas student said of her and her family back in Tehran. The student requested to use a pseudonym, Saba, out of fear for her and her family's safety. The government ...
Updated at 1:47 p.m. Monday, March 2
A Douglas County judge dismissed a first-degree murder case Monday morning after the Douglas County District Attorney's Office filed a motion seeking dismissal due to lack of evidence.
On Monday the state requested that the charges against defendant Julius Robert Beasley, who was accused of killing a woman in a tent at a homeless camp in North Lawrence, be dropped without ...
The defense attorney for a man charged with murder in a crash that killed a local actor is asking the court to keep his client's arrest affidavit under wraps, saying that it includes alleged admissions by his client as well as toxicology results and how fast he may have been driving.
Michael Clarke, who represents Eliseo Munoz, says in a motion to the court that the public does not need to see such "granular" ...
A speech pathologist who was scheduled to be arraigned Friday on multiple counts of abusing children last year at Prairie Park Elementary School in Lawrence instead received a continuance to mid-April due to the "magnitude" of the case.
Mark Gridley appeared briefly late Friday morning in front of Judge Amy Hanley in Douglas County District Court. Hanley said the continuance, unopposed by the state, was not ...
A Douglas County judge on Thursday said she was completely "flummoxed" by yet another continuance being sought — less than two weeks from trial — in a low-level felony case that originated in 2023.
"We are three years into this case, and I am absolutely confused about the manner in which this case is being pursued," Judge Amy Hanley told the two attorneys arguing the case of Phillip Michael Eravi, who is ...
