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 ...

Hours after two Lawrence men were fatally shot, Rodney Marshall, surrounded by dozens of cops on Kansas Highway 10, confessed to the murders and claimed he had a very "good reason" for the killings. "What a load off," he appears to say on video as he is taken into state custody, where he would ...

A 75-year-old Lawrence man has been charged with two sex crimes against a child under the age of 14. The defendant, Steven Lee Braswell, was arrested early Sunday evening in the 400 block of Michigan Street. On Monday he was charged with one count of aggravated criminal sodomy and one count of ...