When Nicholas Beaver murdered a man last year in downtown Lawrence, then fled across town on his bike, he was likely unaware of just how many cameras had recorded his actions. Some of those cameras — like the one that captured three ear-splitting gunshots and Beaver’s victim collapsing on ...
"This case makes no sense," a defense attorney told the jury Thursday in a case of a man accused of aggravated criminal sodomy against two teens, including his own brother. On Friday, the jury appeared to agree, at least partially, delivering not-guilty verdicts on the most serious charges ...
A special bench honoring the long history of women judges and attorneys in Douglas County will now sit outside the juvenile courtroom in the Judicial and Law Enforcement Center. The colorfully inviting bench, titled "Pioneers of the Bench," by Van Go artist Langley Gottesburen, was unveiled ...
When she was 12 years old, Tyler Mosher lost her dad, Mike, in the line of duty. He was a police officer in Overland Park, and he was killed in a shootout in 2020. One thing that helped her through that heartbreaking situation, Mosher said, was a special "buddy" doll that she received from the ...
Story updated at 4:59 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 4: The girlfriend of a defendant standing trial for aggravated criminal sodomy told a jury on Thursday that she and her boyfriend thought that the two alleged teen victims might "hit it off" but that a plan for the teen boy to sexually assault the ...
UPDATED 5:47 p.m. Sept. 4 Multiple Kansas Highway Patrol troopers spent hours Thursday blocking the driveway and scouring the property of the Lawrence Kia dealership in an operation that was connected to the Kansas Department of Revenue. Exactly what the law enforcement officers were doing ...