Updated at 3:41 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12 A parade of witnesses on Thursday presented a damning array of evidence against a driver accused of fatally striking a KU student with his truck and then fleeing the scene. After the two and a half hours of testimony, Judge Stacey Donovan ordered the ...
The remaining defendant in the shooting that killed one teenager and injured another at the Jayhawk Cafe in January has pleaded not guilty, and his trial has been set for March of next year. Daitron Daniels Strickland entered his plea on Thursday in Douglas County District Court. He's facing ...
Local law enforcement and emergency response agencies plan to conduct a joint motorcade and traffic escort training day on Thursday, according to a news release from the Lawrence Police Department. Between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m., drivers throughout Lawrence will see a large training procession ...
A 43-year-old man is being held on a $1 million bond after being charged with sexually abusing two young girls in Douglas County, and his partner has signed a diversion agreement admitting that she knew about the abuse but told the girls to not tell anyone. According to allegations in a ...
A massage therapist accused of multiple sex crimes against nearly a dozen women doesn't want jurors to hear potentially incriminating statements he made to police, but jurors likely will hear those statements after a Douglas County judge on Tuesday declined to suppress them. Attorneys for ...
For the staff going to work at Bowersock Mills and Power Company, encountering people living outside with serious mental health or substance use problems is not new. “I and my staff can’t get to work any day of the week without encountering someone that is really suffering from addiction ...