When National Guard Soldier Sarah Beckstrom died on Thanksgiving, the day after being shot in Washington, D.C., KU graduate Baset Azizi spent a sleepless night wondering what he could do to ease the pain "even just a little" — of Beckstrom's grieving family, of her military brethren and of thousands of Afghan immigrants in the United States who shared a national identity with the alleged shooter.
"My heart ...
The state wants him to go to prison, but the defense says he should go to the U.S. Marine Corps instead.
The fate of 21-year-old Joshua Mayo — prison or probation — will soon be decided by Judge Stacey Donovan, who recently convicted Mayo of felony criminal threat and misdemeanor criminal damage to property and a second DUI. Donovan was set to sentence him on Wednesday, but delayed doing so until Dec. 23 ...
A speech pathologist accused of molesting multiple students at a Lawrence elementary school last winter has been ordered to stand trial on 14 felony counts.
Douglas County Judge Amy Hanley, following a two-day preliminary hearing in October, ruled Thursday that probable cause existed for the state's case against Mark Gridley to proceed.
Hanley also found that the seven kidnapping charges did not "merge" with ...
A Douglas County jury on Wednesday found a man not guilty in a domestic battery case.
The acquittal was the second for the Douglas County District Attorney's Office in a single day — a separate jury on Wednesday acquitted a teen of aggravated assault with a handgun — and at least the seventh acquittal in recent months.
A jury of eight women and four men found Joshua Clary, 41, not guilty of one count of ...
Updated at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 17
A defendant who was convicted of murdering a man in front of the Lawrence Public Library in 2024 has been ordered to serve more than 51 years in prison.
Judge Stacey Donovan on Wednesday handed down the 620-month term requested by the state and denied the defense's motion for a downward departure in Nicholas Laron Beaver's sentence.
A Douglas County jury in July found ...
An arrest affidavit for a former award-winning paraprofessional in the Lawrence school district alleges that the para inappropriately touched a middle school boy, asked him to undress and gave him dozens of late-night car rides.
Caleb Zachary Rahmeier, the former para who was honored in December 2023 with the Lawrence Schools Foundation’s “Dedication to Education” award, is facing a felony count of ...
