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 judge denied house arrest on Friday for an international student accused of rape after hearing from a professor and Catholic deacon who had offered to let the student stay in his home.
The student, Calistus Chukwuma Ezenwa, 21, is charged in Douglas County District Court with one count of rape and one count of criminal sodomy, both felonies, in connection with an incident on Nov. 21, 2024, according to ...
