A man accused of violently beating and pistol-whipping people in a car and again on his front lawn testified Wednesday that he was actually the victim, not the aggressor, on a September night in 2024 as the group returned to Lawrence from an Oktoberfest event in Topeka.
Elijah J. Garcia, of Lawrence, told a Douglas County jury that he had simply been acting in self-defense after the driver and the driver's ...
A Texas man targeted a 10-year-old Lawrence girl with sexually graphic messages and persuaded her to participate in an exchange of nude photos and videos, according to the man's recently released arrest affidavit.
Dominik Smith, 21, of Irving, Texas, was charged in December 2025 with electronic solicitation of a child under the age of 14 and sexual exploitation of a child between 14 and 18 years old. Both ...
A 23-year-old Topeka man was arrested early Saturday morning outside Logie's bar in downtown Lawrence after he allegedly threw a glass bottle at a bouncer and spit at people.
Didier Omarion Lee Cosey was taken into custody around 1:30 a.m. outside the bar in the 700 block of Massachusetts Street.
According to Lawrence Police Department spokeswoman Laura McCabe, bar management was trying, unsuccessfully, to ...
A Douglas County jury on Monday watched a 7-second video of a man slamming a handgun into the side of another man’s head and the gun instantly — and loudly — discharging.
The pistol’s firing at such close range left burn marks on the man’s face, his former girlfriend told the jurors.
That violent act, however, was just the final of many violent acts perpetrated by the defendant that night, she ...
A Lawrence attorney for a Texas man accused of sex crimes against Douglas County children is asking the court to keep the public from seeing the reasons for the man's arrest.
Dominik Jamal Smith, of Irving, Texas, was charged in December 2025 with electronic solicitation of a child under the age of 14 and sexual exploitation of a child between 14 and 18 years old. Both offenses are alleged to have occurred ...
Updated at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 28
A Douglas County judge on Wednesday sentenced a Lawrence man to more than 12 years in prison for rape and aggravated criminal sodomy.
The sentence came after a jury in November convicted Miquel Brown, 33, of the two sex crimes and after his attorneys failed on Wednesday morning to win a new trial for him or a favorable departure from the Kansas Sentencing Guidelines.
The ...
