A Lawrence man was sentenced to 3 years of probation on Monday in Douglas County District Court in connection with an attack on an off-duty Lawrence police officer.
The man, Jackson Eugene Brouhard, 20, was convicted of one felony count of reckless aggravated battery for an incident around 2 a.m. on Nov. 4, 2022, when he and four others are accused of attacking Lawrence police officer Austin Corbitt with a ...
Two Lawrence men were charged on Monday with raping a 29-year-old woman and sharing nude images of her. One of the men is also charged with battering her with a pellet gun.
Malachi Samuel Thomas, 23, is charged in Douglas County District Court with one count of rape, one count of aggravated sodomy, one count of aggravated battery with a pellet gun and one count of breach of privacy for disseminating images of ...
A man originally charged with attempted murder after what was alleged to have been a revenge-fueled drive-by shooting pleaded no contest to lesser crimes Wednesday in Douglas County District Court.
Jermey Anthony Johnson, 25, originally faced two counts of attempted first-degree murder by firing multiple rounds from a firearm at a person in connection with an incident on Aug. 1, 2021, according to charging ...
Updated at 1:35 p.m. Thursday, March 30, 2023
Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical crews extinguished a fire at a park shelter early Thursday morning that caused an estimated $40,000 in damage.
Fire crews were dispatched at 5:50 a.m. to Chief Jim McSwain Park at the corner of East 19th Street and Haskell Avenue, which is near the LDCFM training tower. The fire was under control by 6:01 a.m., according to a ...
Douglas County and the sheriffs, former and present, named in a federal lawsuit filed by Rontarus Washington Jr. for wrongful incarceration are seeking dismissal of the case based on qualified immunity, the statute of limitations and failure to specify a violation.
The lawsuit was filed on Feb. 15 by Washington’s attorney Larry Michel, of the Kennedy Berkley law office of Salina, and names former Douglas ...
Updated at 10:50 a.m. Friday, March 31
A Lawrence man pleaded no contest to attempted murder in the second degree on Wednesday for an incident in 2022 when he attempted to throw a woman off the Kansas River Bridge into the river.
The man, Adam Blake Amyx Jr., 38, was also charged in Douglas County District Court with three felony counts of criminal threat, but those charges were dismissed by the state as a ...
