Updated at 6:30 p.m. Monday, July 21 Some jurors appeared startled Monday when three gunshots loudly and abruptly rang out on a video that was being played for them. Preceding the gunshots, which presumably killed 39-year-old Vincent Lee Walker on March 6, 2024, in front of the Lawrence ...
Potential jurors who have been trying to contact Douglas County District Court about jury duty next week may have met some roadblocks Friday as communications systems at the Judicial and Law Enforcement Center were down for much of the day. A trial is scheduled beginning Monday in Division ...
Updated at 11:40 a.m. Friday Two people are dead and a third was critically injured in a shooting on Haskell Avenue on Thursday evening, according to Lawrence police and emergency radio traffic. The Lawrence Police Department posted on social media that the shooting took place at 1600 ...
As expected, multiple new child sex crime charges have been filed against a former Prairie Park Elementary speech pathologist. In an amended complaint filed by the Douglas County District Attorney's Office, Mark Gridley, 61, is now facing 14 charges, including seven counts of aggravated ...
A woman who ran a red light, critically injuring a pedestrian and killing a dog, then fleeing, was found guilty Wednesday of leaving the scene of an injury accident and interference with law enforcement. The woman, Lasean Rochelle Dixon, 36, pleaded no contest to the two felonies in a deal ...
In February, Coby Allen Gore Holland shot a 23-year-old man with a Glock-style handgun while drunkenly and recklessly handling the firearm in a car full of people. But at his plea hearing Wednesday for aggravated battery, no mention was made of a gun. Instead, the prosecutor, Adam Carey, said ...