A Lawrence man was ordered to stand trial on Thursday for allegedly spanking a 4-year-old boy so violently that the child could not sit down and required medical attention.
The man, Dominick Tyler Valencia, 24, is charged in Douglas County District Court with one count of felony child abuse, according to charging documents. The charge is a level-4 felony and carries a presumptive prison sentence between 38 and ...
A Lawrence man entered a no contest plea on Wednesday to a home burglary in which he was discovered by a 9-year-old girl, who has since been gathering a “cache of weapons” in case burglars ever return, according to a letter read to the court during another defendant's sentencing hearing.
The man, Daniel Martinez Sanchez, 19, entered a plea in Douglas County District Court to one count of residential ...
Law enforcement launched a pepper spray canister into a car and arrested a wanted Lawrence man inside it on Sunday after an hourlong standoff in which he refused to leave the vehicle.
Louis George Galloway Jr., 32, was scheduled to be sentenced in Douglas County District Court on April 13 for a low-level drug possession charge for methamphetamine. He had pleaded no contest in December as part of a plea ...
The question of innocence is at the heart of a dispute between the state and the attorney who is suing on behalf of a man whose Lawrence rape case was dismissed after he had spent two years in prison.
The state asked the Douglas County District Court in March for a judgment on the pleadings — arguing that no facts are in dispute and that the state is entitled to judgment as a matter of law — in the case of ...
When law enforcement pulls you over and finds what appears to be a half pound of fentanyl, a half pound of heroin and three and a half pounds of methamphetamine in your vehicle, you go to jail.
Indeed, Ricky Lincoln and Keven Ernest Jones, both of Tucson, Arizona, did get booked in the Douglas County Jail when the Kansas Highway Patrol pulled them over last month in North Lawrence and found what appeared to be ...
A Lawrence teen was sentenced to two years of probation for firing a gun at two pedestrians in downtown Lawrence in an incident that was caught on camera by a police patrol car.
The teen, Treyvon D. Johnson, 19, pleaded no contest on Feb. 27 to two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. The charges relate to an incident on Aug. 28, 2022, when Johnson was hanging out of the passenger window of a car ...
