Story updated at 3:50 p.m. April 20, 2026:
A 25-year-old man was charged Monday with first degree-murder in the death of his grandmother.
Marcus Logan Cassella, whose bond has been set at $1 million, is accused of killing 70-year-old Lynn Audrey Abrams on Saturday at a Lawrence home in the 2500 block of West 24th Terrace. Police said that Cassella had confessed to strangling Abrams.
Cassella was arrested ...
A 44-year-old massage therapist has been charged with four more sex crimes, in addition to the seven he was charged with last week.
Aaron Paul Borger, after charges added Wednesday, is now facing 11 counts, including seven felonies and four misdemeanors. The felony counts include two charges of rape and five counts of aggravated sexual battery. The misdemeanors include four counts of sexual battery.
Three new ...
Updated at 1:45 p.m. Thursday, April 16
Nine weeks before a 20-year-old KU student was killed in a hit-and-run, the driver accused in her death was arrested by a deputy on suspicion of DUI and other crimes, but the charges in that case weren't filed until March, months after the student's death.
Douglas County District Attorney Dakota Loomis on Thursday told the Journal-World that the delay was due to his ...
Failing to register as a violent offender in Kansas is a serious offense, and on Wednesday a convicted felon in Douglas County discovered just how serious.
Devontae Deshon Rae Torres, who was convicted in 2022 of siccing a pit bull on a man, was ordered to stand trial on two counts of aggravated violation of the Kansas Offender Registration Act, a Level 3 person felony punishable by a minimum of 55 months in ...
Back in 2005, Sean Pauzauskie, then a senior at KU, took the advice that many an English major ignores.
“You can be a writer, but get a day job,” he was told by his mentor David Bergeron, a professor of English and well-known Shakespearean scholar.
It turned out to be a good advice — not just from the perspective of paying the bills, but also from the perspective of telling stories.
The day job ...
It's been more than five months since a 20-year-old KU student's body was found on the side of the road, but little headway appears to have been made in the case of the driver accused of killing her.
On Tuesday, the defense attorney for William Klingler was granted another 30-day continuance. However, Judge Stacey Donovan said that would be the last.
"I'm not going to give another continuance," Donovan told ...
