A Douglas County prosecutor on Tuesday vehemently objected to the bond being lowered for a 75-year-old man accused of molesting a young boy, telling the court that the man had confessed to sex crimes that are punishable by life in prison. Defendant Steven Braswell, of Lawrence, was in Judge ...
Douglas County commissioners will revisit an allocation for 2026 operating funds at the Treatment & Recovery Center on Wednesday, and it's a smaller amount than previously proposed. The Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center approached county commissioners in Dec. 2025, as the ...
UPDATED 12:45 P.M. MAY 19 Storms that stretched across eastern Kansas on Monday night produced rain, high winds and some tornado warnings the region. Locally, there were several reports of wind damage following Monday night’s severe storms, which according to a personal weather station ...
In part because of rising employee health insurance costs, the Lawrence Public Library’s Board of Trustees has approved a 2027 budget that would raise its mill levy from 4.1 to 4.5 — the maximum mill levy it can approve under city ordinance. The operating budget, which the trustees ...
An 18-year-old Basehor man has been charged with raping a child Saturday in Lawrence. The man, Trevion Mikel Wilson, was arrested shortly after 7 p.m. Saturday and was charged Monday morning with one count of raping a child under the age of 14, an off-grid felony punishable by life in prison ...
A 21-year-old Lawrence man was arrested on Saturday on suspicion of stealing thousands of dollars from the Lawrence grocery store that employed him. The man, Ethan Cade Waters, was taken into custody after the store asset manager at the Dillons at 3000 W. Sixth St. informed the police about an ...
