A trio of Douglas County judges and others associated with the county's three specialty courts gathered Tuesday to celebrate National Treatment Court Month with a tree planting on the lawn in front of the Judicial and Law Enforcement Center. Tim Shoulderblade, a 2024 graduate of the Drug Court ...
Joshua Mayo thought that telling on fellow inmates for possessing contraband in the jail might be a substantial and compelling reason to get a lighter sentence for himself — probation instead of prison — but a Douglas County judge on Monday disagreed and ordered Mayo to 15 months in ...
Hours after two Lawrence men were fatally shot, Rodney Marshall, surrounded by dozens of cops on Kansas Highway 10, confessed to the murders and claimed he had a very "good reason" for the killings. "What a load off," he appears to say on video as he is taken into state custody, where he would ...
A 75-year-old Lawrence man has been charged with two sex crimes against a child under the age of 14. The defendant, Steven Lee Braswell, was arrested early Sunday evening in the 400 block of Michigan Street. On Monday he was charged with one count of aggravated criminal sodomy and one count of ...
A 31-year-old male massage therapist was recently arrested by Lawrence police on suspicion of rape. An affidavit sent to the Douglas County District Attorney's Office for charging consideration details events alleging nonconsensual sexual contact between a male employee and a 19-year-old ...
Police officers were looking for the occupants of a black Nissan on Saturday after an early morning fight outside Replay Lounge led to gunfire according to a social media post by the Lawrence Police Department. A fight broke out at the bar just before 2 a.m., and one man pulled out a gun and ...