A repeat drug offender who was accused in a Lawrence woman’s fentanyl death in 2022 has pleaded guilty in new cases to possessing methamphetamine and to violating the offender registration act.
William Byrd, of Lawrence, recently entered the pleas as part of a deal with the state. In one case from March of this year, the Douglas County District Attorney's Office accepted a guilty plea to felony possession of ...
Updated at 3:50 p.m. Tuesday, July 28, 2026
A 50-year-old man was charged Tuesday with a felony after passersby accused him of masturbating in public in downtown Lawrence.
The man, Jimmy Lee Hadl, of Lawrence, was arrested early Monday evening at Ninth and Vermont streets. According to the spokeswoman for the Lawrence Police Department, Laura McCabe, someone complained that a man was fondling himself in plain ...
A 39-year-old man accused of rape and other crimes was declared incompetent to stand trial Tuesday in Douglas County District Court.
In April, a psychologist at Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center, Sara Godinez, determined that defendant Kevin Renee Robertson was competent to stand trial — that is, she concluded that he was able to understand the charges against him and to assist in his own defense. ...
It was scorchingly hot on Sunday, but these bikers "ride in anything, rain or shine — for the kids" as Dragonfly put it, and on this day they roared into Lawrence to give a young man what he would later call "the best day of my life."
That young man, Shawn Collier, thought his family was going to South Park in the July heat only to celebrate his mom's birthday. When they got there he noticed a group of bikers ...
A teenager who was set to stand trial in less than two weeks for allegedly raping and sodomizing a Lawrence 5-year-old accepted a plea deal Thursday in Douglas County District Court.
The teen, who was 14 when the crime occurred on Nov. 17, 2024, pleaded no contest to an amended count of aggravated indecent liberties with a child. Even though his victim was 5 years old, she is listed in the amended complaint as ...
After a group of young men were escorted out of a Lawrence bar for being underage, they met up with a KU student and bought wristbands from him that purported to show they were at least 21 and that enabled their entry. Two hours later, the group would be connected to two shootings at the bar, one of them fatal.
That's according to the partially redacted arrest affidavit for Hunter J. Noravong, the KU student ...
