A struggle with eye cancer and a struggle to preserve a piece of land will forever be intertwined in the memory of Lawrence author Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg.
Mirriam-Goldberg, a prairie advocate, two-time cancer survivor, one-time poet laureate — and now “one-eyed woman,” as she matter-of-factly puts it — is launching her latest book this week.
Titled “The Magic Eye: A Story of Saving a Life and a Place ...
Updated at 1:15 p.m. Monday, July 14
One of Douglas County District Attorney Dakota Loomis’ first hires when he took over from the previous DA was his wife — at the rate of $38 an hour, according to figures provided by Douglas County.
Loomis’ wife, Krystal Boxum-Loomis, has so far been paid $26,201 by the county. She was hired as Loomis’ “transition director,” a position that did not exist under ...
Updated at 4:24 p.m. Thursday, July 10, 2025
A 37-year-old defendant sobbed as three successive “not guilty” verdicts were read Thursday in Douglas County District Court, acquitting him in a Lawrence teenager's 2021 fentanyl overdose death.
Benjamin Mims wiped away tears and hugged his attorneys as the mother of the deceased teen, who had been sitting in the front row throughout the trial, quietly left the ...
Faced with the possibility of decades behind bars, a young drug dealer agreed to testify against an innocent man to save himself. That's what defense attorneys intend to tell jurors Thursday as they deliver closing arguments in the case of Benjamin Mims, who is accused in the fentanyl death of a Lawrence teenager.
But the state will offer a far different version of events that led to the death of 18-year-old ...
A star prosecution witness in a fentanyl death case abruptly invoked his Fifth Amendment right to not testify Tuesday in Douglas County District Court, resulting in jurors being sent home early and raising questions about how the case will move forward.
Logan Hastie Morgan, a convicted drug dealer, took the stand for mere minutes in the case against one-time codefendant Benjamin Lerell Mims, who is facing ...
Updated at 1:48 p.m. Monday, July 7, 2025
A teen who was charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of another Lawrence teen took a plea deal on Monday, the day his trial was set to begin.
The defendant, Cir Allen Keith Glover, 19, pleaded no contest to second-degree reckless murder in the death of Isaiah Neal, 17. Part of the plea included an agreement to recommend 120 months, or 10 years, in ...
