The City of Lawrence agreed to pay $85,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a skateboarder who claims he was beaten by police and wrongfully prosecuted, an attorney representing the city told the Journal-World on Thursday.
Michelle Stewart, an attorney from Hinkle Law Firm who represented the city in the suit, said the city's insurance provider was paying the $85,000 to settle the case. On Tuesday, a U.S. district ...
A Baldwin City man was ordered to stand trial on Tuesday in Douglas County District Court on multiple felony charges related to thefts, drugs and fleeing police; however, a judge declined to find probable cause on most of the charges the man faced.
Derrick James Davidson, 31, originally faced 13 felony charges, including two felony counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm, felony aggravated burglary, ...
A federal lawsuit filed by a Lawrence skateboarder alleging police brutality was resolved after the parties recently reached a settlement.
The terms were not immediately clear. The Journal-World has reached out to the parties for details.
U.S. District Judge Kathryn H. Vratil signed an order Tuesday to administratively close the case, saying that "On February 21, 2023, the parties notified the Court that they ...
A Lawrence teenager who was charged with firing a gun at two pedestrians in downtown Lawrence entered a no contest plea to the charges on Monday.
Treyvon D. Johnson, 19, was convicted in Douglas County District Court of two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. The case relates to an incident on Aug. 28, 2022.
Johnson’s co-defendant, Jaden Lamar Lenny Hall, 18, of Lawrence, faces two felony ...
A Lawrence man accused of trafficking two children was ordered to stand trial Friday in Douglas County District Court after a woman testified that he also sexually abused her when she was a teenager.
The man, Cormick Gabriel Ferrell, 44, faces one count of aggravated indecent liberties with a child between the ages of 14 and 16, according to charging documents in that case. The incident is alleged to have ...
A Lawrence woman was ordered to stand trial on Friday in Douglas County District Court for second-degree murder in connection with a crash that killed a 50-year-old woman.
The defendant, Kodi Rae Crane, 40, is charged with one felony count of second-degree murder or in the alternative felony involuntary manslaughter, according to charging documents.
The charges relate to a car crash on Aug. 4, 2021, around ...
