A large grass fire caused by a tow truck temporarily closed U.S. Highway 59 south of Lawrence on Wednesday afternoon, and traffic will still be affected for a while even though the highway isn't completely closed anymore. Douglas County Sheriff's Office spokesman George Diepenbrock said in an ...
A Lawrence woman accused of pulling a knife on a convenience store clerk last fall will not be immune from prosecution based on her claim of self-defense, a Douglas County judge ruled Wednesday. Judge Stacey Donovan said that after "painstakingly reviewing" six videos from the store it was ...
After hearing testimony from several witnesses, a judge in Douglas County District Court Tuesday found probable cause to set a jury trial for the man facing second degree murder charges related to the stabbing of a 35-year old woman last summer. Aaron Blake Wright, 63, was charged with ...
A plea agreement for a violent offender went off the rails Monday after a Douglas County judge informed the attorneys that they had been plea-bargaining using the wrong criminal complaint. After she discovered the parties' error, Judge Stacey Donovan reset the plea hearing for Wednesday to ...
Area fire crews were busy over the weekend not just with dangerous fire weather, but also with a water rescue at Clinton Lake after a boat capsized. Strong winds caused a sailboat to overturn on the lake around 1 p.m. Sunday, according to a social media post from the Douglas County Sheriff's ...
Updated at 5:25 p.m. Wednesday, March 25, 2026 A woman told Lawrence police that her ex-boyfriend and father of her child sent her threatening text messages the day before he barged into her apartment and shot her new boyfriend in the abdomen, leaving the man with life-threatening ...