A Manhattan man accused of sexually exploiting a teenager in Douglas County in January 2022 was charged Friday in Douglas County District Court. Preston Meier Jones, 21, was charged with one felony count of sexual exploitation of a child by promoting a sexual performance, according to charging documents. The documents said that the charges were related to an incident that took place on Jan. 3, 2022, and that ...
An 82-year old man drove across a field and into a creek near the intersection of Kansas Highways 40 and 32 on Thursday morning, and the Kansas Highway Patrol is investigating whether alcohol was involved in the accident. Douglas County sheriff’s deputies responded to the crash just before 11 a.m. and found that the man was not injured, sheriff’s office spokesperson George Diepenbrock said in an email to ...
Lawrence officials can’t yet say whether the city’s drinking water contains dangerous “forever chemicals” that came under new scrutiny from the Environmental Protection Agency this week, but Lawrence has started spending money to find out. City officials last tested for the polyfluorinated substances — known as PFAS — in 2013, and the city didn’t detect any in its water supply at that time. But ...
A Lawrence man was sentenced Wednesday to just over three years in prison for recklessly firing a gun and possessing a gun within 10 years of being convicted of a felony. Tino James White, 39, entered a no contest plea in February to one felony count of criminal discharge of a firearm and one felony count of possession of a firearm, according to court records. The charges are in connection with an incident on ...
A Eudora man's 18-year armed robbery sentence was reduced by more than half on Wednesday in Douglas County District Court after he successfully argued that his criminal history score had been calculated incorrectly. In 2021, Raymond Paul Stilley, 34, pleaded no contest to two counts of aggravated robbery and was sentenced to 18 years in prison by Judge Sally Pokorny, as the Journal-World previously reported. ...
UPDATED 3:50 P.M. MARCH 13, 2023 The identity of human remains found in September has been confirmed to be a Lawrence man who was last seen in April of 2022, according to a recently acquired police report. The man, Dean Allen Morrison, 42, was reported missing on June 11, 2022, according to a report from the Lawrence Police Department. Morrison’s body was found on Sept 19, 2022. Lawrence police responded to ...