Story updated at 6 p.m. Friday, March 6: The City of Lawrence employee who fatally shot a 28-year-old man two months ago at City Hall will not be charged with a crime, after the DA's office found that he acted in self-defense and defense of others. Douglas County District Attorney Dakota ...
A 31-year-old man who was accused last summer of damaging cars with a ukulele "used as a weapon" took a plea deal Thursday that resolved four criminal cases against him, and he was ordered to serve a year in the Douglas County Jail. The criminal damage charge against Randy Washee Ahtone Sr., ...
Updated at 12:33 p.m. Thursday, March 5 A man accused of sexually attacking two children decades ago in a Lawrence park is out of custody on a $100,000 bond and has hired a private attorney to represent him, according to newly released information in the case. David James Zimbrick, 58, was ...
A retired Lawrence police officer who was accused of hitting a man while off duty at a kids’ basketball game last winter in Topeka has pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and will be on supervised probation for a year. According to a recently filed journal entry in the Shawnee County case, ...
A store employee was rude to her, so she pulled a knife on him. That's the state's version of what happened in the early-morning hours last November at a Lawrence convenience store. The defendant's version is that she was innocently acting in self-defense. A Douglas County judge on Monday will ...
Updated at 6:21 p.m. Tuesday, March 3 The Kansas State Board of Healing Arts has revoked the license of an athletic trainer after he admitted accessing confidential medical records of women who had undergone breast augmentations. Jeremy A. Goates admitted accessing hundreds of files, many of ...