After a fatal accident during a towing job in 2020, a Lawrence tow company owner had a simple message for his employee who was on the scene: "We need to lawyer up."
That's what Douglas County jurors heard in a civil trial on Tuesday, in a video from a police facility. But they also heard the owner, Jason Kent, testify that they didn't talk to a lawyer before a police interview. And in footage of the interview, ...
Three trials are underway in Douglas County District Court Monday morning as more than 100 potential jurors were called to service to hear cases involving allegations of a DUI crash that damaged a Lawrence restaurant, an attack on a corrections officer, and a fatal tow-truck incident.
The alleged DUI crash damaged Big Mill, 900 Mississippi St., on Nov. 4, 2022. The defendant, Brandon Lee Vess, 31, of Lawrence, ...
A former Lawrence tow truck driver told a jury on Monday that a woman who was killed during a towing incident wasn’t in the “kill zone” because the tow job hadn’t started yet.
Killed in the incident categorized by police as an accident was 29-year-old Lindsay Raine on Nov. 9, 2020, around 11:20 a.m. in the 3400 block of Augusta Drive. Raine, who was a mother of two, is at the center of a wrongful death ...
A Topeka man who was set to be tried for rape in two weeks instead entered a plea Thursday in Douglas County District Court to two counts of sexually motivated aggravated battery.
The man, Daniel James Garcia-Hernandez, 23, was originally charged with one felony count of rape of a person who was unconscious or powerless, according to charging documents. The incident was alleged to have occurred on Jan. 16, ...
A hearing for a Lawrence teen who is alleged to have shot a man during a drug deal was rescheduled on Wednesday in Douglas County District Court after the victim was arrested by law enforcement on a warrant for violating probation.
The teen defendant, Cameron Jay Cooper, 18, is charged with one count of aggravated battery in connection with a shooting on Nov. 11, 2024, around 7:45 p.m. at 3323 Iowa St., the ...
A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit by a woman against the City of Lawrence and the police, finding its claims without merit.
The woman had been charged in Douglas County with filing a false rape report. Even though the criminal case against her was dropped, she filed the civil lawsuit, with former Douglas County District Attorney Suzanne Valdez saying she would be a witness for the woman against the ...
