A Lawrence man previously charged with distribution of heroin causing a death pleaded no contest on Thursday to three lower-level felony drug charges as part of a plea agreement. Timothy Edward Thompson, 44, had originally been charged in Douglas County District Court with one felony count of ...
No basis exists for a gunman to claim immunity from prosecution in the Jan. 17 shootings at The Hawk, a Douglas County prosecutor has written, citing video and witness accounts in the case. The 18-year-old shooter, Daitron Daniels Strickland, has claimed that he was acting in self-defense ...
Updated at 3:15 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 5 A man accused of beating and pistol-whipping people in a car and again on his front lawn was found not guilty Thursday of all six felony charges, including aggravated battery, in Douglas County District Court. The jury of five men and seven women returned ...
A homeless man who was accused, but acquitted, of threatening a person with an ax near a Lawrence homeless camp was charged on Thursday with aggravated assault with a baseball bat and domestic battery. Brandon Eugene Snow, 35, whose address on the jail booking log is the Lawrence Community ...
A man accused of violently beating and pistol-whipping people in a car and again on his front lawn testified Wednesday that he was actually the victim, not the aggressor, on a September night in 2024 as the group returned to Lawrence from an Oktoberfest event in Topeka. Elijah J. Garcia, of ...
Two drivers were seriously injured early Wednesday morning in a crash on U.S. Highway 40 several miles northwest of Lawrence. Douglas County Sheriff's Office spokesman George Diepenbrock said in an email that deputies were dispatched to the crash at the intersection of U.S. Highway 40 and East ...