Two young children are dead after their young sibling reportedly picked up a loaded, unsecured shotgun and fired, according to a news release from the Kansas Bureau of Investigation. The incident happened on March 28 in Brookville, which is in Ellsworth County about 20 miles southwest of ...
A 34-year-old man was convicted on Tuesday in Douglas County District Court of trying to kill his grandfather last summer by firing multiple bullets into his Lawrence residence. The defendant, Douglas Adam Speight, was originally charged with attempted first-degree murder in the June 3, 2025, ...
A Topeka gang member who was acquitted in a 2022 Douglas County shooting after he claimed self-defense has now been sentenced to five years in prison after being found guilty in federal court of illegally possessing machine guns. Daequan Rayton, 28, and three other men who federal authorities ...
Numerous repairs were underway at a Lawrence appliance store Monday afternoon after it was struck by a car earlier in the day. Jack Flynn, the sales manager at Stoneback Appliance, 925 Iowa St., told the Journal-World that the incident at around 10 a.m. happened very quickly. He initially ...
Crews extinguished an apartment fire in one of the two buildings at Pinnacle Woods Apartments on Monday afternoon, and nobody was injured, first responders told the Journal-World. Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical responded to the fire just after 1:30 p.m. on Monday, and crews were on the ...
A property manager for a landlord accused of numerous child sex crimes testified on Monday that the landlord asked him to procure sworn affidavits from the alleged victims "recanting their story." According to the state, the 74-year-old landlord, Mark Duane Strand, dangled the promise of ...