The rape trial for two men that was set to begin this week was put on hold at the 11th hour over the alleged victim’s continuing noncooperation in the case.
The woman had accused four men of brutally raping her over several days in March of 2023 while she was on drugs and in and out of consciousness and of videotaping the assaults. The woman testified at the men’s preliminary hearing in June of 2023, when ...
A bench warrant was issued Tuesday for a man's arrest after he failed to appear for his sentencing for an aggravated battery conviction that stemmed from a shooting.
The defendant, Evan Gauge Heffner, 19, pleaded no contest to the charge on Sept. 4. He had originally been charged with attempted first-degree murder after allegedly shooting a man on May 10 at the Motel 6 at 1130 N. Third St. As the Journal-World ...
A mom and her two young-adult children who have been living in a tent behind Lawrence’s Amtrak station packed up their belongings Monday for the second time in two months to move to yet another location, this time a campsite farther east.
The City of Lawrence announced on Aug. 16 — just weeks before Betsy’s family moved to the wooded area between the train station and the river — that the Amtrak camp, ...
The two men competing to be the next district attorney for Douglas County have both been highly critical of the outgoing one-term DA, citing high turnover in the office, poor outcomes in the courtroom and damaged relationships with police and judges, among other issues. Each candidate has downplayed the role of partisan politics in his own campaign and has characterized his run as an attempt — a calling, ...
A 22-year-old Eudora man on Tuesday was ordered to stand trial on four counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after witnesses testified that he pulled a gun on them out of the blue as they sat in a car in downtown Lawrence.
The four witnesses, three of them minors from Franklin County, told the court that on May 4, late at night, they were sitting in a car at East Eighth and Massachusetts streets ...
A woman accused in a March hit-and-run that killed a dog and critically injured its owner has applied for a diversion in the case.
Lasean Dixon, of Lawrence, made her first court appearance in September on a felony charge of leaving the scene of an injury accident, and she appeared again on Wednesday, when her attorney, Jessica Glendening, told the court that her client had filed a diversion application with ...
