Updated at 2:44 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2026
A man who was arrested in a Sunday homicide in downtown Lawrence has not been charged in the incident, but police say "he remains the suspect."
Keisonn Smith, 25, of Topeka, was arrested Sunday after the fatal stabbing of 20-year-old McMillin Tutu, of Kansas City, Missouri.
Lawrence police had said that evidence pointed to Smith as the suspect, and he was arrested ...
A man who was convicted of attempted voluntary manslaughter after trying to kill his step-grandfather last summer by firing multiple bullets into his Lawrence residence was sentenced on Tuesday to three years of probation - an outcome that the victim approved of.
The defendant, Douglas Speight, was originally charged with attempted first-degree murder in the June 3, 2025, incident, but pleaded no contest in ...
A man began serving 60 days of "shock time" Tuesday as part of his punishment for a pair of felonies against a 14-year-old girl two years ago.
The man, Mark B. Lee, was originally charged with rape, indecent liberties with a child and aggravated intimidation of a witness connected to incidents in the spring of 2024. Those charges were amended to aggravated battery and aggravated intimidation of a witness as ...
A Lawrence man will spend three years on probation for a sex crime against an 11-year-old girl, pursuant to a plea agreement with the Douglas County District Attorney's Office.
The sex offender, Shelton Robertson, was originally charged with rape in the July 2021 incident in which he got into bed with a child and assaulted her, but in June he entered a plea to two counts of aggravated sexual battery — a ...
On the day of a celebration of life for a murdered teen, a woman rushed home when she received a worrying text that "the whiteboys" were walking around her eastern Lawrence neighborhood. Shortly after she arrived home, she and her boyfriend were shot by one of those "boys" in her doorway, according to a recently released affidavit in the case.
The woman identified the shooter as "Rondo" and "the whiteboys" as a ...
Updated at 2:20 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 27, 2026
A Douglas County jury has found a Lawrence YouTuber guilty of felony interference with a law enforcement officer after deliberating for about one hour.
Prosecutor Eve Kemple had described the case as a very simple one, and apparently jurors agreed; they began deliberating right after 11 a.m., when their lunch was ordered, and reached a verdict right around noon, ...
