A judge did not punish a 15-year-old boy on Thursday after he admitted to posting a screenshot from YouTube of a court proceeding in a murder case. The murder case was that of Derrick Del Reed, 18, of Lawrence, who was charged with one count of first-degree murder in connection with the ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours. Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity up to 6 a.m. on the date listed and extending back to 6 a.m. on the previous day. Each listing includes a date, time and ...
The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office is inviting community members to dispose of expired and unneeded prescription medicines for National Prescription Drug Take Back Day at the end of April. The sheriff’s office along with the Lawrence Police Department will be stationed outside the ...
A driver struck a mail truck north of Lawrence on Thursday, sending a mail carrier to the hospital and briefly closing a rural road. Douglas County Sheriff's Office spokesman George Diepenbrock said in a news release that at about 1 p.m., a 2008 Hyundai Accent hit the mail truck in the 2000 ...
A January 2025 trial date was set on Thursday for a man charged with murder in the shooting deaths of two Lawrence men nearly two years ago. The defendant, Rodney E. Marshall, 52, was charged in Douglas County District Court with two counts of first-degree murder, five counts of attempted ...
Two Lawrence men were sentenced to prison time on Wednesday — one to more than six years and another to just over 17 years — in connection with a fatal shooting that took place in 2021 during a drug deal. The men, Javier Isidro Romero, 20, and Andrel Darnell Spates Jr., 22, both of ...