A prosecutor made a strong case on Monday for a high bond amount in keeping an alleged habitual Lawrence domestic abuser in jail.
Douglas County Deputy District David Greenwald said that defendant Servando Joel Martinez Vazquez, 25, had accumulated several charges of domestic battery since 2019 and in the most recent allegations, he is alleged to have battered a woman who has a protection order against him, ...
A man accused of shooting at people outside a bar and a library in Baldwin City has been deemed mentally fit for trial after treatment at a state hospital, and his attorney is asking the court to suppress statements he made to law enforcement after his arrest.
Junah Augustus Sisney, 22, of Baldwin City, is charged in Douglas County District Court with one count of attempted capital murder, according to charging ...
A Lawrence man pleaded guilty on Friday to sexually motivated aggravated battery of a teen girl, as part of a deal in which the state dropped two other charges.
The man, Brandon Warren Kissinger, 32, was charged in Douglas County District Court with one count of aggravated indecent liberties with a child and two counts of indecent liberties with a child, all felonies, according to charging documents. The ...
A Douglas County jury on Friday found a towing company and its employee more than 50% responsible for a woman's death in 2020 and awarded more than $4 million in damages, although an attorney said the amount the plaintiffs could ultimately receive would likely be much lower than that.
Over the past week in Douglas County District Court, attorneys for the family of 29-year-old Lindsay Raine and the towing ...
For the family of a Lawrence woman who was fatally crushed by her car while preparing to have it towed, and for the tow company they're suing, what happened that day in November 2020 boils down to risky behavior.
What they differ on — and what a jury will have to ponder starting Friday — is who was taking the risks.
The attorneys for the tow company and the driver, Erin VanNatta, say it was the woman ...
Lindsay Raine's daughter, Milli, remembers the last words she heard from her mother on the morning of the accident in 2020 that took Lindsay's life.
“The last words she said to me is, ‘I love you. I love you to the moon and back,'” the 15-year-old girl told a teary-eyed courtroom on Wednesday. She was one of several family members who took the stand at the civil trial in the family's suit against towing ...
