As a Douglas County district judge grapples with whether to admit an alleged confession into evidence and whether to lower a defendant's bond, recent court filings have shed more light on what led to sex-crime charges against a Lawrence child care worker — notably details regarding a police interview with the accused.
As the Journal-World has previously reported, Angela Keck, the lawyer for Mateo Emilio ...
A Lawrence man was ordered on Monday in Douglas County District Court to stand trial for second-degree murder and felony DUI after witnesses testified that he was speeding and passing cars on the shoulder before running a stop sign and crashing into another vehicle.
The man, Anthony Michael Royal, 55, is charged with one felony count of second-degree murder by acting unintentionally but recklessly under ...
A Lawrence man who was already on probation for sex crimes was sentenced on Monday in Douglas County District Court to more than seven years in prison in a child pornography case.
The man, Bruce Stanley Springsteen, 65, was convicted in January, after entering a no contest plea, of one count of attempted sexual exploitation of a child. Springsteen was attempting to access images of abused children on June 19, ...
You might have seen Lawrence resident Susan Pogány's marbled paper art many times without even realizing it — on tissue boxes, book covers, wrapping paper and greeting cards — and now you can see it in a book that chronicles the history of the art form over the last half century.
The book, "Pattern and Flow: A Golden Age of American Decorated Paper, 1960s to 2000s," is associated with an exhibition running ...
A special prosecutor opposed any bond modifications Friday in Douglas County District Court for a child care worker accused of sex crimes at Lawrence’s Raintree Montessori School, citing an alleged confession for crimes involving two children.
The child care worker, Mateo Emilio Clavel Wills, 20, of Lawrence, faces four counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child under the age of 14. Two of the ...
After witnesses testified about a chaotic scene at a Lawrence gas station, a Lawrence man was ordered to stand trial Thursday in Douglas County District Court for an alleged armed robbery on Iowa Street on New Year's Eve.
The man, Katroy Dejion Jenkins, 29, faces one felony count of aggravated robbery with a handgun, according to charging documents. The charges relate to an incident around 1:30 a.m. on Dec. ...
