Michael Coffey has been wanting to film a thriller in Lawrence for the past seven years — ever since he conceived of the screenplay for “One Eye Open.” He found the perfect setting right away: the Ludington-Thacher House — that mid-19th century brick mansion that turns everyone’s head as they drive down the 1600 block of Tennessee Street. And he even cast some of the roles. But he just couldn’t ...
The topic of experience dominated Monday’s district attorney candidate forum, with Republican Mike Warner touting his three decades as a prosecutor and Democrat Dakota Loomis emphasizing his longtime familiarity with and connections to the local legal system. The two candidates, vying to replace embattled one-term DA Suzanne Valdez, met for the second time in a week, this time at a forum hosted by the Douglas ...
Updated at 6:09 p.m. Friday, Sept. 27 A Lawrence man was sentenced Friday to 31 months in prison for involuntary manslaughter in connection with a 2023 shooting that killed a Topeka man. The man, Maliqe Crenshaw, 23, was originally charged with one felony count of second-degree murder in connection with the death of 20-year-old Cameron Renner on June 3, 2023, around 1 a.m. in the 2400 block of Cedarwood Drive, ...
Tempers flared Thursday morning outside a Douglas County courtroom, threatening to erupt into violence again, as a crowd exited a hearing for a Lawrence teen who is accused of killing another teen earlier this year. A similar incident played out in June after the defendant’s first court appearance, necessitating the intervention of sheriff’s deputies, as the Journal-World reported. Cir Allen Keith Glover, ...
An Overbrook man who assaulted another man with a firearm last summer was sentenced Wednesday to 15 months in prison for the crime. The man, Kevin Lee Lemon, 54, pleaded no contest to the offense on July 3 in Douglas County District Court. The offense falls under Kansas' Special Rule 1, which dictates a presumptive prison sentence if a firearm is used in the commission of a person felony. Lemon was arrested ...
A man who was scheduled to stand trial this week for his fifth DUI instead pleaded no contest to the offense in a last-minute deal that let him evade several other charges. Dustin Lee Welch, 44, of Topeka, was found guilty Tuesday in Douglas County District Court of an incident on Sept. 4, 2022, in which his blood alcohol level was nearly three times the legal limit of .08 — the fifth time he had been caught ...