A 34-year-old man was convicted on Tuesday in Douglas County District Court of trying to kill his grandfather last summer by firing multiple bullets into his Lawrence residence. The defendant, Douglas Adam Speight, was originally charged with attempted first-degree murder in the June 3, 2025, ...
A Topeka gang member who was acquitted in a 2022 Douglas County shooting after he claimed self-defense has now been sentenced to five years in prison after being found guilty in federal court of illegally possessing machine guns. Daequan Rayton, 28, and three other men who federal authorities ...
Numerous repairs were underway at a Lawrence appliance store Monday afternoon after it was struck by a car earlier in the day. Jack Flynn, the sales manager at Stoneback Appliance, 925 Iowa St., told the Journal-World that the incident at around 10 a.m. happened very quickly. He initially ...
Crews extinguished an apartment fire in one of the two buildings at Pinnacle Woods Apartments on Monday afternoon, and nobody was injured, first responders told the Journal-World. Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical responded to the fire just after 1:30 p.m. on Monday, and crews were on the ...
A property manager for a landlord accused of numerous child sex crimes testified on Monday that the landlord asked him to procure sworn affidavits from the alleged victims "recanting their story." According to the state, the 74-year-old landlord, Mark Duane Strand, dangled the promise of ...
During a forum discussing local law enforcement topics Saturday afternoon, Lawrence Police Chief Rich Lockhart made it clear how he felt about the unrest early in the year in Minneapolis. “Renee Good and Alex Pretti were murdered (by federal agents),” Lockhart told the crowd of around 70 ...