Updated at 11:50 a.m. Monday
A fire Sunday morning in Lawrence displaced a family and killed two of their pets.
The house's owners, Lisa and Alan Potter, told the Journal-World Monday morning that the family, which includes two kids, had lived at the home at 2456 Ohio St. for about eight years.
They said their son woke them up just before 6:30 a.m. Sunday after he heard some popping in the garage.
Alan went ...
A prosecutor with the Douglas County District Attorney’s Office has been named the 2022 Kansas Prosecutor of the Year for her work with children in need of care.
The Kansas County and District Attorneys Association announced the winner of the award, Katy Britton, at its fall conference last week. The association is made up of state, county and city employees whose principal duties are prosecution of ...
A Eudora man was ordered to stand trial in Douglas County District Court after a woman testified on Wednesday that he raped her while his wife slept nearby.
The man, Derek Sean Conner, 33, is facing one felony count of rape of a 26-year-old woman who was incapable of consent, according to charging documents. The charge stems from an incident in the early-morning hours of Jan. 23.
During a preliminary hearing ...
A Lawrence man was sentenced on Thursday in Douglas County District Court to 27.5 years in prison for sexually abusing two children under the age of 14.
Zachary Jonathan Lang, 38, pleaded guilty to four counts of aggravated criminal sodomy in September, and on Thursday Judge Sally Pokorny sentenced Lang to 165 months on each count, with the first two counts to run consecutively and the remaining counts to run ...
A Eudora man has been charged in Douglas County District Court after he allegedly chased two teenagers into a Lawrence house and threatened them with a knife.
Deven Antonio Ryan, 18, faces two felony counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, one felony count of aggravated burglary and one misdemeanor count of battery, according to charging documents.
The charges stem from an incident on Oct. 22, ...
A woman was sentenced to probation on Wednesday in Douglas County District Court for attempting to obtain hundreds of images of child pornography on a laptop shared with her husband.
April Caitlin Ticer, 25, of Kansas City, Kansas, pleaded no contest to two felony counts of attempted sexual exploitation of a child in September for conducting an internet search sometime between October 2019 and September 2020 ...
