A star prosecution witness in a fentanyl death case abruptly invoked his Fifth Amendment right to not testify Tuesday in Douglas County District Court, resulting in jurors being sent home early and raising questions about how the case will move forward. Logan Hastie Morgan, a convicted drug ...
A jury was sworn in Monday in Douglas County District Court to decide the case of a man accused in the fentanyl overdose death of a Lawrence teenager four years ago. The defendant, Benjamin Lerell Mims, 37, is facing charges of distributing a controlled substance causing the death of ...
Updated at 1:48 p.m. Monday, July 7, 2025 A teen who was charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of another Lawrence teen took a plea deal on Monday, the day his trial was set to begin. The defendant, Cir Allen Keith Glover, 19, entered a plea to 2nd-degree reckless murder in ...
Updated at 12:44 p.m. Monday, July 7 A 33-year-old man has been charged with attempted first-degree murder following a stabbing at the Lawrence homeless shelter. Police were called to the Lawrence Community Shelter, 3655 E. 25th St., at 5:30 p.m. Sunday. There they found a 41-year-old man, ...
Below is a list of individuals who have been arrested and charged with a felony crime in Douglas County. Due to lag times in charging and records processing, the reporting period for this report is from 5 p.m. Tuesday to 5 p.m. Wednesday. Defendants listed should be presumed innocent unless ...
A former Douglas County district attorney and her deputy are immune from a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by a woman whose conviction for killing a baby was overturned, a judge ruled. Carrody Buchhorn, of Lawrence, claimed that the two attorneys — Suzanne Valdez and Joshua Seiden — ...