A Lawrence attorney for a Texas man accused of sex crimes against Douglas County children is asking the court to keep the public from seeing the reasons for the man's arrest. Dominik Jamal Smith, of Irving, Texas, was charged in December 2025 with electronic solicitation of a child under the ...
An alleged retail fraud spree came to a halt Tuesday night when Lawrence police tracked down four suspects with help from the Kansas Highway Patrol. According to a press release from the Lawrence Police Department, four alleged scammers were attempting to rob Lawrence Walmart stores after ...
Updated at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 28 A Douglas County judge on Wednesday sentenced a Lawrence man to more than 12 years in prison for rape and aggravated criminal sodomy. The sentence came after a jury in November convicted Miquel Brown, 33, of the two sex crimes and after his attorneys ...
Video of the Jan. 17 shootings at the Jayhawk Cafe shows the two underage murder defendants in the case sneaking into the bar through a side entrance and fighting with staff, including one of them brandishing a handgun and pointing it at a bouncer's head before exiting the bar, Lawrence police ...
A defendant in the Jan. 17 fatal shooting at the Jayhawk Cafe is claiming that he should be immune from prosecution because he was acting in self-defense when he heard "multiple gunshots in close proximity to him." Hearing those gunshots entitled 18-year-old Daitron Daniels Strickland to pull ...
Updated at 7:28 p.m. Friday, Jan. 23 A suspect with pending felony cases is in custody following a shooting at a Lawrence apartment complex. The shooting, which happened Friday afternoon at Hawks Pointe complex just south of West Seventh and Florida streets, critically injured a man, who was ...