An October rape trial for a Lawrence man will no longer occur after Douglas County District Attorney Suzanne Valdez asked the court to dismiss the case. Malachi Trenton Starr, 23, was accused of raping a woman in a car on April 30, 2022, as the Journal-World reported. The woman testified at a ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity over the weekend. 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 general address ...
A Lawrence man was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Friday for striking an off-duty police officer with a tire iron in 2022. He is the fifth and final defendant to be sentenced in the case. The man, Zachary Taylor Maddux, 20, of Lawrence, pleaded guilty to one felony count of aggravated ...
A federal judge in Kansas has tossed out a machine gun possession charge and questioned if bans on the weapons violate the Second Amendment. If upheld on appeal, the ruling by U.S. District Judge John W. Broomes in Wichita could have a sweeping impact on the regulation of machine guns, ...
Updated at 6:50 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 22 A Douglas County jury on Thursday found a man not guilty of aggravated assault in connection with two alleged road rage incidents last year in Lawrence. Jeremy James Shacklett, 47, was charged with three counts of aggravated assault stemming from two ...
The cause of the fire Monday at Brandon Woods at Alvamar has been determined to be accidental due to improper discarding of smoking material, according to a news release Wednesday from Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical. As the Journal-World reported, dozens of residents and staff were ...