"He didn't wake up wanting to kill my dad, but he did," 16-year-old Kate Schupp told a judge Thursday morning. Kate was with her father, Skip Schupp, in his 1965 Ford truck on July 18, 2025, when Zachary Odom, high on methadone, recklessly plowed his Ford Focus straight into them, killing Skip ...
A deputy public defender has been selected as the new pro tem judge for the Douglas County District Court. Gary West will fill the position previously held by Blake Glover, who was recently appointed by Gov. Laura Kelly to be a district judge. West will begin his appointment on Oct. 5. Pro ...
Updated at 3:10 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 24 A speech pathologist who was scheduled to stand trial on multiple counts of sexually abusing children at Prairie Park Elementary School was found dead at his Lawrence home Thursday morning. The Lawrence Police Department said it responded to the home of ...
An 18-year-old Lawrence man was arrested Tuesday in Independence, Kansas, on suspicion of rape. The man, Kavon Burk Price, was picked up from custody in Montgomery County pursuant to a warrant. The Douglas County District Attorney's Office has charged Price with one count of rape in which the ...
Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical will be inviting the public to its stations over the next few months to share suggestions and learn more about how the department works. The department announced that it will be holding a series of open houses at each of its five stations. The first one is ...
A Lawrence defense attorney is once again saying the public "will be just fine" not knowing why police deprived a fellow citizen of his liberty in order to face criminal charges. The attorney, Hatem Chahine, who is arguing for his client's arrest affidavit to be completely sealed, said that ...