The Office of Judicial Administration announced nine nominees on Wednesday who will be interviewed by the 7th Judicial District Nominating Commission to fill two district judge positions in Douglas County.
Two of the nominees already work in pro tem judge positions in the 7th District, according to the office's news release: Pro Tem Division Judge Blake Glover, of Baldwin City, and Juvenile Division Judge Paul ...
A woman who was previously facing attempted murder charges in Douglas County had her charges lowered to aggravated battery on Tuesday.
The woman, Dayzunique Ala Nicole Belaire, 24, of Raleigh, North Carolina, was originally charged with one count of attempted second-degree murder for allegedly stabbing a man in the neck, according to charging documents. She was also charged with one count of criminal carrying ...
A judge sealed an arrest affidavit on Monday for a man who's accused of killing two people, leading police on a car chase through Lawrence and onto Kansas Highway 10 and shooting at law enforcement officers last month.
Rodney Ericson Marshall, 51, of Lawrence is charged with two counts of first-degree murder, five counts of attempted capital murder of a law enforcement officer and one count of attempted murder ...
A Douglas County jury has convicted a man of one child sex crime count in a case where two girls said he abused them more than a decade ago when they were in preschool and kindergarten.
Kenneth Wilson Mills, 35, of De Soto, was convicted of one count of aggravated sodomy of a child on Friday for sexually assaulting the younger of the two girls. But he was not convicted of the other three sex crime counts he ...
A Douglas County jury convicted a man on Friday on two counts of attempted murder and multiple other charges for a shooting that occurred in 2020.
Charles Darnell Thomas II, 37, was facing four counts of attempted second-degree murder, three felony counts of aggravated battery, and three felony counts of aggravated endangerment of a child. The charges stem from an incident on July 8, 2020, in the 1900 block of ...
UPDATE 12:35 P.M. AUG. 5, 2022
A Douglas County jury returned a verdict of guilty on one count of aggravated sodomy of a child Friday for a man who was facing multiple counts of sex crimes against children alleged to have occurred more than a decade ago.
Kenneth Wilson Mills, 35 of De Soto, was facing one count of rape of a child, two counts of aggravated sodomy of a child, and one count of aggravated ...
