A Lawrence filmmaker's latest project — a supernatural thriller filmed at an iconic local mansion — has been in the making for the better part of a decade, and in just a few weeks it will open in select theaters.
The film, "One Eye Open," features RJ Mitte of “Breaking Bad” fame, Chris Bylsma ("El Camino") and Maximiliano Hernandez ("Avengers: Endgame"), along with newcomer Kushi Beauchamp and retired ...
A Lawrence defense attorney is once again saying the public "will be just fine" not knowing why police deprived a fellow citizen of his liberty in order to face criminal charges.
The attorney, Hatem Chahine, who is arguing for his client's arrest affidavit to be completely sealed, said that the public could instead just attend court hearings in the case of Ian McGowan Griggs, who is facing a felony charge of ...
A frequent public commenter who has filed more than a dozen lawsuits claiming his civil rights have been violated lost another federal case recently — his third major defeat in his attempt to prove that he is being wronged by the government.
In mid-August, Judge Julie Robinson threw out Justin Spiehs' long-running lawsuit against the Douglas County Commission, Sheriff Jay Armbrister and other county law ...
A Topeka man has been charged with aggravated battery after allegedly bashing another man in the head with a thermos outside a Lawrence grocery store.
According to an arrest affidavit in the case, the incident left a large wound on the victim, who was "covered in blood from his head to his feet" when police arrived shortly before 1:30 p.m. on Aug. 29 at the Massachusetts Street Dillons.
Morgan Delp, 52, was ...
A man accused of murder in the highway death of a local actor waived his right to a preliminary hearing in another criminal matter on Tuesday.
Eliseo J. Munoz, 24, was scheduled to have a preliminary hearing in that matter — a case in which he's charged with a third DUI and driving while suspended — and also in the murder case. He waived his right to the hearing in the DUI case, and the hearing in the ...
The other half of a duo who conspired to throw drugs over a state prison wall has now been sentenced to six and a half years in federal prison.
Tommie Baggett, 26, was an inmate at the state prison in Hutchinson when he arranged with another felon — Jermel Fleming, 33, of Lawrence — to have a package of methamphetamine thrown over the wall. While Fleming was outside of the prison, Baggett gave him ...
