When the Kansas Bureau of Investigation began its inquiry into Sally Pokorny, she was perfectly cooperative. The KBI agent wanted to talk to her neighbors. She gave him a few names, but the agent, thinking those ones would just say positive things about her, told her he “went and talked to ...
The Lawrence Police Department is seeking additional information in a child sex crime case involving an Indiana man who was once a high school teacher in Lawrence. John Matthew Lotz, 62, of Terre Haute, Indiana, was booked into the Douglas County Jail on June 2, as the Journal-World ...
A registered sex offender who could have faced a sentence of more than 20 years in prison was sentenced Thursday afternoon to three years of probation based on a joint motion from the defense and prosecution. Michael Ken Aller, 36, of Lawrence, pleaded no contest to two counts of aggravated ...
A woman who was involved in a standoff with Lawrence police in April 2025 has been convicted by a Douglas County jury of firing on officers. The jury found Gina Marie Cabanas guilty of seven counts of aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer with a deadly weapon and one count of ...
Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical responded to over two dozen weather-related calls during Tuesday morning storms, including a structure fire caused by a lightning strike. LDCFM crews were dispatched at approximately 6:18 a.m. Tuesday to a reported fire on the 100 block of Lawrence Avenue ...
Storms that rolled through Douglas County early Tuesday morning produced lightning strikes that caused one house fire in Lawrence, local officials announced Wednesday. The fire in the 100 block of Lawrence Avenue was not large enough that the residents of the house were displaced, nor were ...