A Topeka man facing two rape counts in Douglas County District Court was set for a preliminary hearing Friday but instead told the court that the parties were contemplating a resolution short of trial.
Senior Assistant District Attorney Ricardo Leal told Judge Sally Pokorny that the state would be filing an amended complaint against Tyler Patterson, but he did not indicate what the new complaint would say or ...
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 ...
Nicole Parker didn't win Season 4 of "The Floor," but she made it to the finale, got to spend a week in Ireland, made a slew of new friends and drank some Guinness in Dublin.
"Oh my goodness, it's way better in Ireland," she said of the iconic brown brew.
She liked the food too.
"There was just a lot of potatoes," she said — not a drawback necessarily, but something you definitely notice, like the ...
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 ...
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 ...
