A 20-year-old Lawrence man pleaded not guilty on Thursday in a case in which he is accused of shooting two people earlier this year and endangering others.
The man, Jaystyn James Curtiss, is now scheduled to be tried on Nov. 30.
In an amended complaint filed June 29, the Douglas County District Attorney's Office charged him with two counts of attempted first-degree murder, two counts of aggravated battery, one ...
A repeat drug offender who was accused in a Lawrence woman’s fentanyl death in 2022 has pleaded guilty in new cases to possessing methamphetamine and to violating the offender registration act.
William Byrd, of Lawrence, recently entered the pleas as part of a deal with the state. In one case from March of this year, the Douglas County District Attorney's Office accepted a guilty plea to felony possession of ...
A man accused of murdering a 35-year-old woman last summer in Lawrence has been declared incompetent to stand trial.
Douglas County District Court records indicate that Aaron Blake Wright, 64, was found unfit for trial earlier this month and was ordered by Judge Amy Hanley to undergo treatment under the supervision of Larned State Hospital.
Generally, a person is deemed incompetent to stand trial when he is ...
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 ...
