A defendant in the Jan. 17 fatal shooting at the Jayhawk Cafe is claiming that he should be immune from prosecution because he was acting in self-defense when he heard "multiple gunshots in close proximity to him." Hearing those gunshots entitled 18-year-old Daitron Daniels Strickland to pull ...

Updated at 7:28 p.m. Friday, Jan. 23 A suspect with pending felony cases is in custody following a shooting at a Lawrence apartment complex. The shooting, which happened Friday afternoon at Hawks Pointe complex just south of West Seventh and Florida streets, critically injured a man, who was ...

A man was ordered to stand trial on charges of rape and aggravated sexual battery in Douglas County District Court after a woman testified Friday that he sexually attacked her on two occasions in 2024. The defendant, Marlon D. Watson, is now scheduled for trial in June. The 27-year-old woman ...

Updated at 6:38 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 22 A Douglas County judge on Thursday sentenced a man to 12 years and three months in prison for rape after a jury last year rejected his claim that the sexual violation had innocently occurred while he was asleep. The victim in the case, a 30-year-old ...

Lawrence could get hit with around seven inches of snow over the weekend and face periodic wind chills of negative 20 degrees, according to the National Weather Service. The weather impacts are due to a wide-ranging storm that will hit much of the eastern United States on Friday where ...

Lawrence residents will join much of the rest of the country in bracing for a winter storm this weekend, as meteorologists expect a higher chance of snow accumulation along with bitterly cold wind chills. Forecasts of the storm, which is expected to hit Friday, anticipate about 230 million ...