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 ...
A Douglas County jury on Monday watched a 7-second video of a man slamming a handgun into the side of another man’s head and the gun instantly — and loudly — discharging. The pistol’s firing at such close range left burn marks on the man’s face, his former girlfriend told the ...
A 23-year-old Topeka man was arrested early Saturday morning outside Logie's bar in downtown Lawrence after he allegedly threw a glass bottle at a bouncer and spit at people. Didier Omarion Lee Cosey was taken into custody around 1:30 a.m. outside the bar in the 700 block of Massachusetts ...
A Texas man targeted a 10-year-old Lawrence girl with sexually graphic messages and persuaded her to participate in an exchange of nude photos and videos, according to the man's recently released arrest affidavit. Dominik Smith, 21, of Irving, Texas, was charged in December 2025 with ...
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 ...