A double murder case took a surprising turn Thursday when a Douglas County judge, with evident dismay, granted a continuance just a few days before the trial was set to begin and after more than 100 potential jurors had been summoned.
“I’m frustrated,” Judge Amy Hanley said at a hearing for the defendant, Rodney Marshall, whose trial will now be next spring instead of next Monday. “I don’t want to ...
At age 90, Freda Pickman finally received a Christmas gift she never got as a little girl: a much longed-for doll.
The gift came this week courtesy of her 21-year-old granddaughter, Lola Niccum, of Lawrence, who had heard her grandma say that she had always wanted a doll as a kid, but only ever got what a struggling, Depression-era family could afford: a single orange or, maybe in a better year, a pair of plain ...
A man accused of breaking a Lawrence police officer's nose has been charged with three crimes in the case and has been ordered to undergo a competency exam to see whether he is fit to stand trial.
The officer is recovering and hopes to be back on the streets before the New Year, the Journal-World has learned. Laura McCabe, a spokeswoman for the Lawrence Police Department, said Tuesday that surgeons had ...
A public wrong deserves a public punishment, a special prosecutor is arguing in the disciplinary case of Douglas County District Attorney Suzanne Valdez.
An informal admonition is not enough to address the professional misconduct of Valdez, Special Prosecutor Kimberly Bonifas has argued to the Kansas Supreme Court in a brief filed this week and released Tuesday. Bonifas argues that such a penalty has already ...
A Lawrence man with an extensive criminal history allegedly walked out of Lawrence's Best Buy store Saturday with over $4,000 in stolen merchandise.
Police were called to the store, 2020 W. 31st St., around 6:30 p.m. about a suspected shoplifting in progress. An officer was led back to the security camera area and viewed the activity live, LPD spokeswoman Laura McCabe said Monday. The man left the store with ...
A former employee of an elder care facility in Lawrence who was accused of stealing thousands of dollars from a resident was found guilty Friday of attempted mistreatment of a dependent adult.
The defendant, Honesty Trussell, 25, pleaded no contest to that felony in a deal with the Douglas County District Attorney’s Office. She had originally been charged with felony mistreatment of a dependent adult or elder ...
