When police stopped Rodney Marshall on Kansas Highway 10 after a chase that reached 100 mph, prosecutor Eve Kemple said Thursday, “he immediately began spontaneously talking.” He talked about having killed two men, Kemple said: Shelby McCoy and William D. O’Brien. He talked about his ...

A Lawrence teen who took and shared a nude photo of a special-needs student in a high school bathroom received the maximum possible sentence for his crime — six months of probation — after the victim and his family told a Douglas County judge how the incident had profoundly affected their ...

As Lawrence city leaders work out how to pay for the fire department’s planned expansion, local law enforcement officers have a request for them: Don’t cut police to fund it. “Public safety is not one-sided, and it should not be funded that way,” Lt. Amy Rhoads of the Lawrence Police ...

Lawrence city leaders voiced support on Tuesday for a proposed fire and medical funding formula that’s intended to result in a more stable split between the city and the county. The City Commission heard a presentation from Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical about its proposed new funding ...

A Lawrence man who has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of his grandmother has been declared incompetent to stand trial. Judge Stacey Donovan on Tuesday ordered Marcus Logan Cassella, 25, to Larned State Hospital and set a new status conference for Aug. 25 in the case. If ...

Updated at 4:30 p.m. Monday, May 4 The trial in a 4-year-old double-homicide case got underway Monday morning in Douglas County District Court with jury selection and is expected to take three weeks. The first panel of 30-plus potential jurors convened in the courtroom of Judge Amy Hanley, to ...