A Lawrence man accused of murdering his wife nearly three years ago refused to attend his competency hearing Friday in Douglas County District Court. The defendant, Chad Marek, 29, was returned in January to the Douglas County Jail from Larned State Hospital, where he had been involuntarily ...
A Lawrence man's charge has been upgraded to first-degree murder in connection with a shooting in March of 2024 after a prosecutor argued that there was evidence to show the killing was premeditated. Nicholas Laron Beaver, 33, was ordered in October 2024 to stand trial on one count of ...
A 22-year-old Eudora man was sentenced on Thursday to 14 months in prison, suspended to probation, for threatening a group of teenagers who were visiting Lawrence from Franklin County last spring. The teens testified at an October preliminary hearing for defendant Corey Newman that Newman, who ...
Lawrence police cut the power to a residence early Friday morning before making entry to end a five-and-a-half-hour standoff with a man accused of battery. Police were called to a home around 11 p.m. Thursday in the 700 block of Ash Street in connection with a man who was accused of battering ...
Updated at 12:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 28 The driver of a speeding — and allegedly stolen — motorcycle that crashed Thursday on North Second Street, seriously injuring a woman, was charged Friday with multiple felonies. Dillon Paul Herken, 26, of Easton, was arrested immediately after the ...
Updated at 10 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025 A high-speed chase in North Lawrence on Thursday afternoon ended with a motorcycle on fire, one person being loaded into an ambulance with serious injuries and another person in handcuffs. A Kansas Highway Patrol trooper was chasing two people on a ...