A speech pathologist accused of molesting multiple children last winter at a Lawrence elementary school is asking a judge to reduce his bond from $1.5 million to $100,000 cash or surety.
The defendant, 61-year-old Mark Gridley, has been in custody since Feb. 8, when he was accused of a sex crime against a Prairie Park Elementary student. Earlier this month, as expected, those charges were upgraded to include ...
A defendant accused of gunning down a man in broad daylight in front of the Lawrence Public Library told a jury that he did so because he was "terrified" after he said the man threatened to cut him up "in little bitty pieces."
Though he maintained he acted in self-defense when he fatally fired three bullets into 39-year-old Vincent Lee Walker on March 6, 2024, Nicholas Beaver, 34, fled from the scene on a ...
"You got the wrong person, bro.”
That’s what Nicholas Beaver told a detective after his arrest on the night of March 6, 2024.
Thirty-nine-year-old Vincent Lee Walker had been shot dead in front of the Lawrence Public Library earlier that day, and Beaver was denying involvement.
A year later, though, Beaver's attorney would acknowledge to a jury that Beaver was not "the wrong person" at all. He had indeed ...
Updated at 6:30 p.m. Monday, July 21
Some jurors appeared startled Monday when three gunshots loudly and abruptly rang out on a video that was being played for them.
Preceding the gunshots, which presumably killed 39-year-old Vincent Lee Walker on March 6, 2024, in front of the Lawrence Public Library, jurors could hear bits and pieces of profanity and an apparent argument that was taking place off ...
As expected, multiple new child sex crime charges have been filed against a former Prairie Park Elementary speech pathologist.
In an amended complaint filed by the Douglas County District Attorney's Office, Mark Gridley, 61, is now facing 14 charges, including seven counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child and seven counts of kidnapping. He had originally been charged with one count of each, but ...
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 ...
