The locally filmed thriller "One Eye Open" will have multiple Lawrence showings beginning this week. The award-winning film, written and directed by Lawrence resident Michael Coffey, was released in select AMC theaters earlier this month and will play at Liberty Hall from Thursday until Nov. 1. Ahead of the 7:30 p.m. show on Oct. 30, there will be a red-carpet event, then a question-and-answer session with ...
If the infamous Borden murders happened today, they’d likely be solved in about 15 minutes. DNA, blood splatter, doorbell cameras, geofencing — all the crime-fighting evidence that wasn’t available to detectives in 1892 in Fall River, Massachusetts — would coalesce quickly into a tidy package for prosecutors to present to a jury. And the jury? It for sure wouldn’t be 12 men who thought, as Lizzie ...
A Douglas County jury on Thursday convicted a 27-year-old Lawrence woman of felony interference with law enforcement after she refused to obey officers who were attempting to arrest her last winter. The incident occurred on Jan. 7 outside a Hy-Vee gas station, where the woman, Jaleigha Flowers, remained in her car and argued with Lawrence police officers, despite being told repeatedly to turn off the engine, ...
A city bus driver on Thursday told a judge how she had been traumatized by the forceful takeover of her bus by a thief last summer. "Not only my life changed but my whole family's," she said at the sentencing hearing for Sherika Carey. The driver, who was unable to work for a period, is now back driving, but she fights anxiety and depression, she said, and can only drive routes where she knows the regular ...
Updated at 5:25 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 15 A teen who got into a barroom altercation and fired his gun multiple times on the night of a fatal shooting at The Hawk pleaded guilty to multiple felonies on Thursday in Douglas County District Court. Caiden Clem, 19, of Atchison, was originally charged with felony murder in the Jan. 17 incident at the popular college bar on Ohio Street, but the criminal complaint was ...
A repeat felon sighed with relief and raised his shackled hands in prayerful gratitude Tuesday as a Douglas County judge sentenced him to probation, despite his having the worst criminal history score possible under the Kansas Sentencing Guidelines. Judge Stacey Donovan told defendant Sean Steven Craig, "You will be released today," after she handed down his sentence for felony criminal threat. She told Craig ...