Updated 7:10 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 21, 2025: Lawrence police arrested University of Kansas men's assistant basketball coach Joe Dooley in west Lawrence on Saturday on suspicion of driving under the influence and failure to stop at an accident, according to the Douglas County Jail logs. The ...
A Topeka man facing two rape counts in Douglas County District Court was set for a preliminary hearing Friday but instead told the court that the parties were contemplating a resolution short of trial. Senior Assistant District Attorney Ricardo Leal told Judge Sally Pokorny that the state ...
Chief Justice Marla Luckert will resign from the office of chief justice on Jan. 2 but will remain as a justice on the Supreme Court until she retires on a date to be announced, according to a news release Friday from the court. The Kansas Constitution includes a provision that allows Luckert ...
The state wants him to go to prison, but the defense says he should go to the U.S. Marine Corps instead. The fate of 21-year-old Joshua Mayo — prison or probation — will soon be decided by Judge Stacey Donovan, who recently convicted Mayo of felony criminal threat and misdemeanor criminal ...
A speech pathologist accused of molesting multiple students at a Lawrence elementary school last winter has been ordered to stand trial on 14 felony counts. Douglas County Judge Amy Hanley, following a two-day preliminary hearing in October, ruled Thursday that probable cause existed for the ...
A Douglas County jury on Wednesday found a man not guilty in a domestic battery case. The acquittal was the second for the Douglas County District Attorney's Office in a single day — a separate jury on Wednesday acquitted a teen of aggravated assault with a handgun — and at least the ...