State law requires residents of a county to be notified of a lot of different legal matters that are underway at any given time. That includes pending foreclosures of homes, new ordinances proposed by local governments, legal name changes of your neighbors, and even the sales that dispose of ...
At a brief Lawrence City Commission meeting on Tuesday, commissioners approved a slate of budget adjustments and procedural items — and heard from several public commenters who disagreed about whether one item was really procedural. The comments, around half a dozen of them, were about a ...
The City of Lawrence won't partner with churches and other community sites for walk-in winter shelter this year, but it expects that newly added capacity at the Lawrence Community Shelter will be enough to handle demand. On Tuesday, the city released more details about its winter emergency ...
A Douglas County judge presiding over two lawsuits against the Lawrence school district related to allegations of sexual abuse at an elementary school denied the district's request to halt the civil proceedings until the criminal case is entirely completed. Judge Catherine Theisen is ...
The brother of Charles Adair, who prosecutors say was killed in the Wyandotte County Jail when a sheriff’s deputy knelt on his back, says the deputy’s treatment shows the county’s “two-tiered justice system.” Richard Fatherley, 32, is charged with second-degree murder and, in the ...
A Douglas County jury on Tuesday took under an hour to acquit a man of aggravated battery after he was accused of attacking another man last winter and gouging his eyes. The man, Hector Seeger, 21, took the stand Tuesday morning and admitted that he had "poked" the other man's eyes after the ...
