Multiple fire department trucks responded just after noon Monday to an incident at Warren-McElwain Mortuary. Battalion Chief Aaron Flory said Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical units were called to a structure fire at the funeral home, 120 W. 13th St., but when they arrived they detected only an odor of smoke inside the building and located a seized motor on an HVAC handler on the roof, which was evidently ...
A woman who scheduled a massage at a Baldwin City yoga studio, hoping to get some relief from lower back pain, instead became the victim of a sexual assault at the hands of a male massage therapist, according to allegations in a recently released arrest affidavit. The woman's report of the incident to police prompted more than half a dozen other women to quickly come forward with similar stories of what they ...
A retired Lawrence police officer who was recently convicted of disorderly conduct in Shawnee County has been reprimanded by the Kansas Commission on Peace Officers' Standards and Training but has not lost his certification to be a law enforcement officer in the state. Former Lt. Myrone Grady received the news Wednesday and said he felt "relief" that no action beyond a reprimand was taken. He told the ...
If Eliseo Munoz had been charged with a third DUI back in the spring of 2024, when he was reportedly driving with three times the legal limit of alcohol in his bloodstream, local actor Louise ImMasche might be alive today. The failure to pursue the DUI charge was a “fatal mistake” by the previous administration in the Douglas County District Attorney’s Office, according to the current DA, Dakota ...
A Lawrence man facing a first-degree murder charge in the death of his grandmother has been ordered to undergo an exam to determine whether he is competent to stand trial. Judge Stacey Donovan on Monday issued the order for defendant Marcus Logan Cassella, 25, after his first court appearance "based on the defendant's inability to understand the charges." At that appearance, via video from the jail, Cassella ...
Story updated at 3:50 p.m. April 20, 2026: A 25-year-old man was charged Monday with first degree-murder in the death of his grandmother. Marcus Logan Cassella, whose bond has been set at $1 million, is accused of killing 70-year-old Lynn Audrey Abrams on Saturday at a Lawrence home in the 2500 block of West 24th Terrace. Police said that Cassella had confessed to strangling Abrams. Cassella was arrested ...