A Kansas City, Missouri, man on Tuesday pleaded no contest in Douglas County District Court to assaulting a police officer. The man, Carlos Garcia Gaspar, 43, entered the plea to one felony count of aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer as part of a plea deal that saw multiple other felony charges being dropped. The case against Gaspar arose on Aug. 30, when he was alleged to have damaged a car and ...
Amanda Sellet evidently had way more fun writing 2022's “Belittled Women” than Louisa May Alcott did writing 1868's “Little Women.” But perhaps that's not surprising. Alcott wrote her novel a bit begrudgingly — at the behest of a male publisher who wanted a book about girls. Judging by Alcott's letters, she didn't enjoy the task much, and she certainly didn't anticipate that her quiet, domestic tale ...
A man who was scheduled to receive a sentence Monday for multiple crimes related to stalking a woman and breaking into her central Lawrence home instead received a new appointed attorney and a delay in the disposition of his case. A jury on Sept. 20 found Lee Andrew Mitchell Pennington, 34, of Lawrence, guilty of felony aggravated burglary, felony aggravated assault and misdemeanor stalking — in a case that ...
A number of area residents paid tribute Monday evening to the five lives that were lost in the Saturday night shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs. At a candlelight vigil in South Park, organized by Amy Meigs, residents shared their grief over the violence at Club Q, which also injured dozens of people in addition to those who were slain by a gunman with an AR-15 style rifle. The 22-year-old ...
A Lawrence woman accused of starting a series of fires earlier this week in North Lawrence has been charged with four counts of arson. The woman, Abie Schnacke, 19, made her first appearance Friday in Douglas County District Court, where Judge Sally Pokorny read the charges against her, appointed attorney Dakota Loomis to represent her and set her bond at $20,000 cash or surety. Two of the four counts of ...
Updated at 5:19 p.m. Thursday Lawrence police have arrested a 19-year-old woman on suspicion of setting multiple fires at or near several North Lawrence businesses on Wednesday night — one of which devastated a printing business. Court records indicate that the woman had also been arrested in another arson case earlier in the week and was out on bond when Wednesday's fires occurred. A police spokesman said ...