A Lawrence man who was a key witness in the death of a 14-year-old boy was granted probation on Thursday for interfering with the police investigation into the shooting. The man, Owen Gage Walker, 20, of Lawrence, pleaded no contest in March to one felony count of interference as part of a ...
Updated at 10:32 p.m. Thursday, May 1 A Douglas County defense attorney is asking a judge to keep from public view a document detailing the arrest of an accused sex offender, asserting that “the public will be just fine if the affidavit is sealed.” The attorney, Hatem Chahine, represents ...
A Lawrence teen was seriously injured on Wednesday morning after a head-on collision with another vehicle that killed a passenger in that vehicle. Kaiden Jimenez, 18, was driving a 2025 Honda Civic east on Interstate 70 around 8:30 a.m. on the Kansas Turnpike just past the Douglas County line ...
A man told a Douglas County judge on Wednesday that he would like to spend his upcoming prison sentence at Larned State Hospital after entering a plea deal that reduced his attempted murder charge in connection with an attack near a North Lawrence homeless camp. Tristen Lamont Hollins, 43, ...
A man was arrested early Wednesday morning for allegedly exposing himself and urinating as police were talking to him about a reported fight in a bar's parking lot. He was one of three men arrested in the past 24 hours arrested on suspicion of indecent exposure or lewd conduct. Lawrence ...
A man testified on Tuesday that he had never met the Lawrence teen who allegedly shot him twice in the leg during a drug deal gone bad and that he still has bullet fragments from the incident in his leg. Cameron Jay Cooper, 18, of Lawrence, is charged with one felony count each of aggravated ...