Updated at 4:24 p.m. Thursday, July 10, 2025 A 37-year-old defendant sobbed as three successive “not guilty” verdicts were read Thursday in Douglas County District Court, acquitting him in a Lawrence teenager's 2021 fentanyl overdose death. Benjamin Mims wiped away tears and hugged his ...
Faced with the possibility of decades behind bars, a young drug dealer agreed to testify against an innocent man to save himself. That's what defense attorneys intend to tell jurors Thursday as they deliver closing arguments in the case of Benjamin Mims, who is accused in the fentanyl death of ...
Updated at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 9, 2025 A motorcyclist died early Wednesday morning when he crashed at Clinton Parkway and Lake Point Drive, according to police, who believe high speeds played a role in the crash. Officers were notified just before 1 a.m. when a passerby saw the victim ...
The Lawrence Police Department urged residents to avoid the area of 23rd Street between Louisiana and Alabama streets Tuesday evening after a crash took down a power line. According to a post on the police department’s Facebook page, the crash happened Tuesday afternoon with no injuries ...
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 ...