A Lawrence father will spend four and a half years in prison for his role in the fentanyl death of another Lawrence father in 2021.
Douglas County Judge Stacey Donovan on Monday sentenced Randell Mark Smith, 32, after he pleaded no contest in February to one count of involuntary manslaughter and one count of distributing fentanyl.
Smith, who had been out on bond and entered the courtroom holding a child, was ...
A Lawrence man was convicted Tuesday in Douglas County District Court of two counts of criminal damage to property — the outcome of a plea deal in two separate cases that originally involved multiple felony charges and allegations that he had brandished a knife at people before being Tased by police.
The defendant, Timothy Michael Foust, 49, entered two no contest pleas in connection with incidents that ...
After a deadly shooting Wednesday across the street from the Lawrence Public Library, the library reached out to patrons Thursday with information on safety protocols and other details.
The shooting occurred just after 5 p.m. in front of a bus stop directly across from the library at 707 Vermont St. The library, normally open until 8 p.m., was shut down after a man was killed on the sidewalk, and staff assisted ...
Law enforcement personnel on Thursday described being on high alert on the day of the funeral for a 14-year-old homicide victim, going so far as to establish a security perimeter around the church where the service was being held and keeping an eye out for expected “gunplay” by young people.
“There were some circumstances surrounding the death of Kamarjay (Shaw) ... we were concerned with retaliation,” ...
A Douglas County judge on Wednesday sentenced a man to nearly five years in prison in a case that began as a rape charge and ended with a plea deal to aggravated battery.
The man, Matthew Thaine Lee, 59, of Baldwin City, pleaded guilty in September 2023 to aggravated battery after originally being accused in February of that year of violently raping a 37-year-old woman, as the Journal-World has reported.
The ...
We’re all from somewhere, and every somewhere is fascinating.
That was the message of Thursday’s International Night, an annual event at Sunflower Elementary School organized by Molly Soukup and Valisha Buselt, who run the English as a Second Language program at the school on Inverness Drive.
It’s a message that second-grader Ethan Lin gleefully embraced as he helped his family serve pork dumplings and ...
