The trial for a 21-year-old man accused of rape and kidnapping was indefinitely delayed on Tuesday, and the man's bond was modified to house arrest with work release. The defendant, Tristan Aden James, is accused of raping a fellow student in November 2024 while he was a sophomore at Haskell ...
UPDATED 4:50 P.M. JAN. 19 The 18-year-old who was shot to death at a Lawrence bar early Saturday was Aidan Knowles, of Shawnee, according to Lawrence police. Police on Sunday shared a Facebook post by Knowles' father, Bobby Knowles, identifying his son as the victim and saying the family was ...
Updated at 4:35 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026 Two 18-year-olds have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a shooting early Saturday morning at the Jayhawk Cafe killed an 18-year-old and critically injured a 16-year-old. One suspect — Daitron Lamont Daniels Strickland, of Shawnee — was ...
A Douglas County judge on Friday praised a teenager's courage for recounting the nightmare she said she had endured for years at the hands of "a monster, a rapist and a pedophile." "To say those things in a room full of people" took a commendable amount of strength, Judge Stacey Donovan told ...
A judge on Thursday sentenced a man to more than two years in prison following his Dec. 11 plea deal to attempted aggravated battery. Jason Lee Stark, 35, was facing three felony charges — attempted aggravated robbery, interference with law enforcement and criminal use of weapons ...
A defendant accused of aggravated kidnapping and aggravated robbery was set to have a preliminary hearing on Thursday but instead got a new attorney. Garnel Andreus Moore Williams, 31, is facing the two felony charges for a November incident in which Lawrence police said several people were ...