A Lawrence man entered a no contest plea on Wednesday in a case in which he was charged with shooting his mother and stepfather while he was drunk and high.
The man, Dalton Vale Turner, 21, was charged in Douglas County District Court with two felony counts of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and one count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
The charges relate to an incident on Feb. 1, 2023, in ...
An attorney was awarded compensation recently after he moved to hold the Douglas County district attorney and her attorney in contempt after the DA's office failed to comply with a court deadline.
The deadline related to the time frame for the DA's office to provide the name of a representative who will testify in a woman's wrongful conviction and incarceration lawsuit regarding what information the DA's office ...
When you think of a firefighter, you might think of someone rushing into a burning building, braving the smoke and flames to save lives. But during the winter months, you might also find them cutting holes in icy lakes and jumping into frigid water.
Members of the Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical department spent some time on Wednesday training on a frozen lake north of Lawrence. It was a “warm” day ...
A Douglas County jury on Friday convicted a man of a 2021 armed robbery at a Lawrence home where a woman and her toddler were living.
The defendant, Chester Wendell Brockman, 51, of Lawrence, was charged with one felony count of aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon and one felony count of aggravated burglary. He was convicted on both counts.
The charges related to an incident on June 30, 2022, in the 3000 ...
A University of Illinois basketball player accused of rape for an incident at a Lawrence bar is scheduled to have a preliminary hearing next month.
A preliminary hearing is where a judge decides whether there's enough evidence to order a defendant to stand trial.
The player, Terrence Edward Shannon, 23, of Champaign, Illinois, is charged in Douglas County District Court with one felony count of rape or, in ...
Two men were scheduled for trial later this month in connection with a 2021 fatal shooting in Lawrence, but they instead pleaded no contest to lesser charges on Tuesday in Douglas County District Court.
The men, Javier Isidro Romero, 20, and Andrel Darnell Spates Jr., 21, both of Lawrence, were each originally charged with one count of murder in the first degree in connection with the fatal shooting of ...
