Updated at 3:48 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 20 Murder charges against the two suspects in the Saturday shootings at the Jayhawk Cafe were filed Tuesday, and the defendants made their first appearance in Douglas County District Court via video from the county jail. Prosecutor Ricardo Leal asked Judge ...
Senior Assistant District Attorney Ricardo Leal is leaving the Douglas County District Attorney's Office for a state job in Topeka. Leal, who has been with the DA's Office since July of 2022, has accepted a position with the office of Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach. That job will start in ...
The trial for a 21-year-old man accused of rape and kidnapping was indefinitely delayed on Tuesday, and the man's bond was modified to house arrest with work release. The defendant, Tristan Aden James, is accused of raping a fellow student in November 2024 while he was a sophomore at Haskell ...
UPDATED 4:50 P.M. JAN. 19 The 18-year-old who was shot to death at a Lawrence bar early Saturday was Aidan Knowles, of Shawnee, according to Lawrence police. Police on Sunday shared a Facebook post by Knowles' father, Bobby Knowles, identifying his son as the victim and saying the family was ...
Updated at 4:35 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026 Two 18-year-olds have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a shooting early Saturday morning at the Jayhawk Cafe killed an 18-year-old and critically injured a 16-year-old. One suspect — Daitron Lamont Daniels Strickland, of Shawnee — was ...
A Douglas County judge on Friday praised a teenager's courage for recounting the nightmare she said she had endured for years at the hands of "a monster, a rapist and a pedophile." "To say those things in a room full of people" took a commendable amount of strength, Judge Stacey Donovan told ...