LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Prosecutors say text messages show that a woman plotted her ex-boyfriend's death with a friend for more than a month before his body was found inside a burning home near Lawrence.

The Lawrence Journal-World reports that prosecutors want to present the texts at the upcoming trial of 39-year-old Tria Evans. But the defense says allowing them wouldn't be fair.

Evans and 38-year-old Christina Towell are charged with first-degree murder in the November 2017 killing of 34-year-old Joel Wales. Evans and Wales had a child together and a history of domestic disputes. Towell is acc...