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 ...

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment is currently monitoring three people who experienced a “high-risk exposure” to a person who contracted Andes hantavirus. The KDHE announced in a press release Tuesday afternoon it was working with the CDC and a state local health department ...

A trio of Douglas County judges and others associated with the county's three specialty courts gathered Tuesday to celebrate National Treatment Court Month with a tree planting on the lawn in front of the Judicial and Law Enforcement Center. Tim Shoulderblade, a 2024 graduate of the Drug Court ...

Joshua Mayo thought that telling on fellow inmates for possessing contraband in the jail might be a substantial and compelling reason to get a lighter sentence for himself — probation instead of prison —  but a Douglas County judge on Monday disagreed and ordered Mayo to 15 months in ...