A man was charged Friday with two felonies after he allegedly threatened armed violence at a Lawrence school. Johnny Owen Holloway, who will turn 63 on Sunday, was charged with aggravated criminal threat, a level 5 person felony, and criminal threat, a level 9 person felony. The charging ...
Douglas County's Public Defender Office is asking a judge to throw out a jury's verdict convicting a Lawrence man of two child sex crimes. The defense attorneys — Jessica Glendening and Allyson Monson — are arguing that statements made by the prosecutor during jury selection and closing ...
A Douglas County jury has found a 74-year-old landlord guilty of multiple sex crimes against children who lived at his Lawrence properties. Mark Duane Strand was convicted Thursday of five counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child, three counts of rape, one count of attempted ...
Story updated at 2:41 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 5, 2026. The Lawrence school district briefly placed all of its school buildings on a lockout Thursday afternoon on the advice of the Lawrence Police Department after a "credible threat involving a mental health concern with an individual in the ...
A 74-year-old Lawrence landlord is standing trial this week on multiple allegations of child sex crimes dating back to 2016. According to the state, the defendant, Mark Duane Strand, took indecent liberties with three girls under the age of 14, including raping one of them repeatedly when she ...
A teen from Washington state has been charged with aggravated burglary of an assisted living facility in Lawrence. Adrian Elias Savala, 18, of Wapato, Washington, was arrested around 2 a.m. Saturday on suspicion of burglarizing Monterey Villages Assisted Living at 3901 Peterson Road. Court ...