A judge on Thursday watched several hours of video of four girls telling how they were bound and blindfolded by a speech pathologist who made them kneel and take something variously described as "squishy" and "long" into their mouths as part of a "test."
The four separate videos, recorded in February at the Children's Advocacy Center by a forensic interviewer, were offered by the state on the first day of the ...
A Lawrence man accused of murdering two men and attempting to kill multiple law enforcement officers will now stand trial in May 2026 — nearly four years after the date of the alleged crimes.
Judge Amy Hanley, saying that she was "acutely aware" of how long Rodney Marshall's case had been pending, nevertheless noted that such delays weren't uncommon in a justice system that cautiously moves at the pace of a ...
The Lawrence school district is asking a judge to delay a civil lawsuit against it relating to alleged child sexual abuse by one of its former employees.
In a motion filed late last week, the school district asked Douglas County Judge Catherine Theisen to stay the civil proceedings until a pending criminal case against speech pathologist Mark Gridley "is concluded by acquittal, sentencing or plea" — a process ...
A convicted murderer refused to appear for a court hearing Thursday, resulting in a probable delay in his sentencing and certain disappointment for relatives of the victim, who would have turned 41 Friday had he not been gunned down last year in front of the Lawrence Public Library.
Nicholas Beaver was convicted by a jury of first-degree murder in the March 6, 2024, shooting of Vincent Lee Walker, 39. On ...
The Lawrence Community Shelter resident accused of fatally stabbing a Lawrence woman last month also reported her death but blamed others for the killing, according to his recently released arrest affidavit.
Aaron Blake Wright, 63, is facing second-degree murder charges in the death of 35-year-old Jina Reyes-Woehler, a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and mother of two whose body was found Aug. 29 ...
A man who shot another man in the leg during a botched drug deal last year was granted probation Friday in Douglas County District Court after a judge suspended his 32-month prison sentence.
Cameron Jay Cooper, who was 18 at the time, was accused of shooting a 26-year-old Iowa man twice in the leg on Nov. 11, 2024, at the Easy Living mobile home park in Lawrence. In August, he was found guilty of reckless ...
