Police officers have lots of experience with people who seem belligerent, defiant or unpredictable. But some of these people aren't troublemakers at all — they're people suffering from dementia, who may be lost, confused or unable to communicate clearly.
The symptoms of Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia can often look suspicious to law enforcement officers, according to Jamie Gideon, a public ...
A Lawrence man pleaded no contest to involuntary manslaughter on Friday, becoming the second person to enter a plea in connection with a 2021 fentanyl overdose death. Another defendant is still facing charges.
The man, Randell Mark Smith, 32, was charged with one count of distribution of a controlled substance causing death. The charge is a level-1 felony, the most severe for Kansas sentencing guidelines. ...
A Lawrence man was sentenced to five years in prison on Thursday in connection with a series of domestic violence incidents in which he was alleged to have punched, cut and dragged a woman by her hair.
The man, Yusaf Ali Austin, 50, was originally charged with 12 felonies, including two counts of aggravated battery, one count of aggravated burglary, one count of tampering with a GPS tracking device, three ...
A Douglas County judge ruled on Thursday that retrying an Alabama man for sexual extortion would be double jeopardy after a jury returned a split verdict in November convicting the man on one count and hanging on another.
Devaris Lamar Howard, 21, of Gadsden, Alabama, was convicted on Nov. 8, 2023, of one count of sexual extortion for blackmailing a woman into sending him nude images in connection with a ...
A new special prosecutor has taken over the case of a man accused of child sex crimes at a Lawrence preschool.
The defendant, Mateo Clavel Wills, 21, of Lawrence, is charged in Douglas County District Court with four counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child under the age of 14. Two counts are in connection with a 3-year-old and two counts are for alleged acts with a 4-year-old, according to charging ...
Two people have filed as Democrats to run for Douglas County district attorney, including current DA Suzanne Valdez, while one of her senior prosecutors has filed to run for office in Johnson County.
Valdez filed to run for reelection on Jan. 12, according to the Kansas secretary of state's website. Valdez told the Journal-World in December that she would run again for the office — amid a disciplinary hearing ...
