This story was updated at 6:22 p.m. Tuesday, April 25, 2023.
After a large fire destroyed several tents on Monday night at an unsanctioned homeless camp behind the Amtrak station in East Lawrence, investigators are working to determine what caused it.
Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical crews responded just after 8 p.m. Monday to the area behind the Amtrak station near the intersection of Seventh and New ...
A hearing to suppress a child-care worker’s alleged confession of lewd touching of preschool-aged children was continued on Friday for the defense to re-engage in mediation talks.
Mateo Emilio Clavel Wills, 20, of Lawrence, was charged in Douglas County District Court with four counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child under the age of 14. Two counts are in connection with a 3-year-old and two ...
Now that her conviction has been reversed, a Douglas County woman who was accused of killing a baby in 2016 at a Eudora day care is seeking nearly $400,000 from the state of Kansas and a formal exoneration, according to court documents.
In her petition, which was filed on Feb. 3, Carrody Buchhorn is seeking $368,986 in damages and $25,000 in attorney fees under a Kansas statute that is intended to provide ...
A self-defense immunity hearing that was scheduled for Thursday for a 17-year-old boy charged in the fatal shooting of a 14-year-old boy has been continued to a later date.
Derrick Del Reed, of Lawrence, has been charged in Douglas County District Court with one felony count of first-degree murder. He is alleged to have shot Kamarjay Shaw, of Lawrence, in the 1300 block of Maple Lane sometime before 5 p.m. on ...
Updated at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 20
A moped driver who was critically injured last week in a crash in central Lawrence has died, according to people who knew him.
Tim Easum, 57, of Lawrence, who went by the nickname “Toad,” was well known in the downtown business community as a longtime delivery driver who used his moped to deliver meals and other items to business owners at their shops.
“We were ...
A Lawrence man pleaded guilty on Wednesday to robbing a gas station on New Year's Eve and violating his previous probation for aggravated battery, and now he faces about six years in prison.
The man, Katroy Dejion Jenkins, 29, was originally charged in Douglas County District Court with one felony count of aggravated robbery with a handgun, but entered a guilty plea to robbery, which is a lesser felony. The ...
