Updated at 5:53 p.m. Friday, May 15 Jurors are now deciding whether the state has proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Rodney Marshall murdered two Lawrence men and attempted to murder several law enforcement officers during an alleged crime spree four years ago. The Douglas County jury of ...

Two people were injured in a shooting in eastern Lawrence on Thursday night, police say, and a man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. The Lawrence Police Department posted on social media that the shooting occurred around 9:30 p.m. Thursday near the intersection of 16th Street ...

Closing arguments in Rodney Marshall's double-murder trial that were scheduled to be heard Thursday afternoon are now slated for Friday morning in Douglas County District Court. The schedule change was due to the court and parties needing more time to complete jury instructions. Sixteen ...

After double-murder defendant Rodney Marshall declined to testify on Wednesday, the defense rested its case on the eighth day of his trial, and jurors will soon begin deliberations. "I am hesitantly not going to take the stand in my own defense," Marshall, under oath, told Judge Amy Hanley ...

An elementary school student was struck by a vehicle Wednesday morning while walking to school at Prairie Park Elementary. 911-connected mobile app PulsePoint said Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical was dispatched just outside the elementary school at 7:54 a.m., and according to a social ...

During Rodney Marshall's police-station confession to fatally shooting two Lawrence men, he took a break to call his mother in California. "It's been a weird week, Mom," he says, in a 2022 video seen by jurors Tuesday at his double-murder trial. "I got into some legal trouble out here in ...