A 39-year-old homeless man has been charged with two felonies after allegedly cutting another man with a knife Tuesday in downtown Lawrence. The man, Dau Cuiebet Jok, was taken into custody shortly before 9 p.m. in the 700 block of Vermont Street, where police had been dispatched to a ...
A Douglas County prosecutor on Tuesday vehemently objected to the bond being lowered for a 75-year-old man accused of molesting a young boy, telling the court that the man had confessed to sex crimes that are punishable by life in prison. Defendant Steven Braswell, of Lawrence, was in Judge ...
UPDATED 12:45 P.M. MAY 19 Storms that stretched across eastern Kansas on Monday night produced rain, high winds and some tornado warnings the region. Locally, there were several reports of wind damage following Monday night’s severe storms, which according to a personal weather station ...
An 18-year-old Basehor man has been charged with raping a child Saturday in Lawrence. The man, Trevion Mikel Wilson, was arrested shortly after 7 p.m. Saturday and was charged Monday morning with one count of raping a child under the age of 14, an off-grid felony punishable by life in prison ...
A 21-year-old Lawrence man was arrested on Saturday on suspicion of stealing thousands of dollars from the Lawrence grocery store that employed him. The man, Ethan Cade Waters, was taken into custody after the store asset manager at the Dillons at 3000 W. Sixth St. informed the police about an ...
Updated at 6:04 p.m. Monday, May 18 Douglas County jurors on Monday found a 55-year-old Lawrence man guilty of nine felonies, including two counts of first-degree murder, related to a crime spree in the summer of 2022. The defendant, Rodney Marshall, was also found guilty of four counts of ...