A mother of a teenaged homicide victim interrupted a court hearing Tuesday morning to express her dismay with the legal proceedings related to her son's killing.
"I got something to say," said Natasha Neal, as she stood up in the gallery during a status conference in Douglas County District Court for 19-year-old Cir Allen Keith Glover, who has been charged with first-degree murder in the June 13, 2024, shooting ...
It was a great honor for Lawrence author Amy Stuber to be nominated for a prestigious literary prize. She had been honing her craft for decades, and being a finalist for the PEN/Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection in her mid-50s brought a pleasant sense of validation.
But a trip to New York is expensive and she wasn’t feeling too great, so she thought she’d skip the ceremony.
“I almost ...
Updated at 4:38 p.m. Thursday, May 15
A Douglas County jury on Thursday found a man guilty of raping a woman eight years ago when the two were guests at a Lawrence home during KU’s graduation weekend.
The woman testified that Reston Phillips, then 22, raped her on May 14, 2017, as she slept on a couch in the home’s living room in the 1200 block of Louisiana Street.
Phillips, however, claimed that ...
Updated at 4:20 p.m. Wednesday, May 14
“Sorry, I’m asleep; I don’t know what happened.”
That’s how a man says he responded to a woman who had just accused him of rape — and a defense expert told a Douglas County jury that the man was "likely" experiencing sexsomnia at the time.
Sexsomnia, as the witness, Dr. Clete Kushida, explained, is "unusual behavior that's sexually related during sleep," ...
In 2017 they were four young men on the cusp of adulthood, celebrating KU graduation at a weekend house party. "The whole gang" was there — drinking, smoking marijuana, barhopping, hanging out — with no inkling that by Sunday morning the house would become a crime scene and that eight years later, to the day, they’d be testifying in the case of a former friend accused of rape.
On Tuesday in Douglas County ...
A 30-year-old woman has been waiting eight years to tell a jury what happened to her on KU graduation weekend in 2017.
On Monday that long-awaited opportunity arrived as she faced Reston K. Phillips in Douglas County District Court and told jurors that he sexually violated her as she slept after a night of celebrating on May 14.
The woman, a one-time KU student who flew back to Kansas that weekend to see her ...
