The students had just watched a video of a man getting beaten over the head with a baton, tased five times, and paramedics ultimately retrieving his unconscious body from a pool of his own blood. Police officers had delivered the beating, and the classroom was full of young adults hoping to ...
The shooting of Alex Pretti moved quickly. It started with a law enforcement officer shoving a seemingly unarmed female protestor to the ground. About 30 seconds later, it ended with — video evidence shows — two law enforcement officers firing multiple rounds into Pretti, who already had ...
A Lawrence attorney for a Texas man accused of sex crimes against Douglas County children is asking the court to keep the public from seeing the reasons for the man's arrest. Dominik Jamal Smith, of Irving, Texas, was charged in December 2025 with electronic solicitation of a child under the ...
An alleged retail fraud spree came to a halt Tuesday night when Lawrence police tracked down four suspects with help from the Kansas Highway Patrol. According to a press release from the Lawrence Police Department, four alleged scammers were attempting to rob Lawrence Walmart stores after ...
Updated at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 28 A Douglas County judge on Wednesday sentenced a Lawrence man to more than 12 years in prison for rape and aggravated criminal sodomy. The sentence came after a jury in November convicted Miquel Brown, 33, of the two sex crimes and after his attorneys ...
Video of the Jan. 17 shootings at the Jayhawk Cafe shows the two underage murder defendants in the case sneaking into the bar through a side entrance and fighting with staff, including one of them brandishing a handgun and pointing it at a bouncer's head before exiting the bar, Lawrence police ...