A trial for a Lawrence activist accused of interfering in 2023 with law enforcement is now set to take place in August after a judge reluctantly allowed another in a long line of continuances; however, there's a chance the case could be dismissed altogether in the meantime.
That's because the attorney for defendant Phillip Michael Eravi filed a motion to dismiss the case as a sanction on the state for providing ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
