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 ...
An award-winning prosecutor who spent more than a decade in Douglas County has returned to the Douglas County District Attorney’s Office after a brief stint working for the state attorney general’s office.
Eve Kemple was sworn in as a senior assistant district attorney on Wednesday afternoon by Judge Sally Pokorny in Douglas County District Court. That's a slight change from when Kemple left in 2021. She ...
A Lawrence man accused of inappropriately touching two preschoolers at a private school where he worked was ordered on Tuesday to stand trial, after multiple days of hearings and a playback of a police interview in which he says "I felt good that I got caught."
Mateo Clavel Wills, 22, is charged with four counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child under the age of 14, two involving a 3-year-old and ...
Lawrence police had recommended that a man be charged with conspiracy to commit murder in connection with a 14-year-old boy’s shooting death, according to a recently released affidavit.
The man, Owen Gage Walker, 20, of Lawrence, was to be a key witness in the trial of Derrick Del Reed, 19, of Lawrence, in March of 2024. Reed was charged with first-degree murder in the death of 14-year-old Kamarjay Shaw ...
By 1875, the members of the Kansas Editors' and Publishers' Association had witnessed more history than many people read in their whole lives.
They'd lived through a bitter conflict between Jayhawkers and border ruffians, and one between the North and the South. They'd seen the bloody birth of a state — and the breakup and reconstruction of a country — with their own eyes.
And they knew this was a story ...
A hearing in Douglas County District Court was delayed on Friday for a Lawrence teen accused in a shooting after the victim failed to appear to testify.
The teen, 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 address of Easy Living mobile home park.
According to an affidavit in support of ...
