A Lawrence police detective will pursue a diversion agreement to settle a DUI charge that he received after allegedly crashing his car off-duty.
Testing by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation showed that the detective, Adam Christopher Welch, had a blood alcohol content of 0.25, or more than three times the legal limit for driving in Kansas. As the Journal-World previously reported, Welch refused all sobriety ...
A Douglas County prosecutor said Friday that the state has found a new expert witness to testify regarding a baby's cause of death at a Eudora day care in 2016.
A former employee of the day care, Carrody Buchhorn, 47, was convicted in 2018 of killing the baby, 9-month-old Oliver “Ollie” L. Ortiz, but her second-degree murder conviction was overturned last year, when the Kansas Court of Appeals ruled that ...
Updated at 6:30 p.m. Friday
Douglas County welcomed a new District Court judge Friday with the swearing-in of Carl A. Folsom III.
Folsom was sworn in to one of two vacant positions in Douglas County. Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly in October announced Folsom’s appointment to the court along with Catherine Theisen, both of Lawrence, to fill a position vacated by retiring Judge Kay Huff and a new position created by ...
A Lawrence fast-food manager committed sex crimes against a 15-year-old employee, according to allegations in a newly released affidavit in the case.
The man, Stephen Tyler Wampler, 27, has been charged in Douglas County District Court with two felony counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child, one felony count of furnishing alcohol to a minor with intent to commit a crime, and one misdemeanor count ...
Updated at 1:20 p.m. Nov. 29
A Lawrence police officer on Tuesday was honored with the Golden Achievement Award for his work with Mothers Against Drunk Driving of Kansas.
Officer Shawn Gross has been involved with MADD for six years, and the organization gave him the award for “going above and beyond” in his efforts to prevent impaired driving and in training fellow officers on the importance of ...
A Topeka man has been charged with multiple felonies for allegedly stealing a cell phone from a woman and threatening a man with a stick on Thanksgiving, according to charging documents.
Anthony Duane Harris, 56, is charged with one felony count of robbery; one felony count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a stick; one misdemeanor count of criminal damage to a cellphone; and one misdemeanor count of ...
