If you have expired or unwanted prescription drugs, Lawrence police will safely dispose of them for you this weekend as part of the Drug Enforcement Administration's annual Take Back Day. Police will be collecting the drugs at their headquarters at 5100 Overland Drive from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. ...
If Eliseo Munoz had been charged with a third DUI back in the spring of 2024, when he was reportedly driving with three times the legal limit of alcohol in his bloodstream, local actor Louise ImMasche might be alive today. The failure to pursue the DUI charge was a “fatal mistake” by the ...
A Lawrence man facing a first-degree murder charge in the death of his grandmother has been ordered to undergo an exam to determine whether he is competent to stand trial. Judge Stacey Donovan on Monday issued the order for defendant Marcus Logan Cassella, 25, after his first court appearance ...
Story updated at 3:50 p.m. April 20, 2026: A 25-year-old man was charged Monday with first degree-murder in the death of his grandmother. Marcus Logan Cassella, whose bond has been set at $1 million, is accused of killing 70-year-old Lynn Audrey Abrams on Saturday at a Lawrence home in the ...
A Douglas County judge on Monday ordered a Baldwin City man to stand trial on multiple charges of dealing drugs, including methamphetamine, marijuana and mushrooms. The defendant, Maurice Dijon Lafleur, 54, was charged last summer with three felony drug distribution counts, one felony count of ...
Lawrence police officers arrested a man overnight who said he killed his grandmother by strangling her, according to a news release from the department. Officers were dispatched to a home just southwest of Clinton Parkway and Crestline Drive a little before 2 a.m. Saturday. Dispatchers told ...