A woman testified on Monday that she feared for her and her child’s life during an armed residential robbery that happened in 2022.
Two men were charged in the case shortly after it happened at a house on June 30, 2022, in the 3000 block of Bainbridge Circle. One, Chester Wendell Brockman, 52, of Lawrence, has already been tried and convicted in connection with the case while his codefendant, Markcus Trey ...
Lawrence sits at the center of one of the larger barrel horse racing associations in the country, and it's easy to meet the riders and their horses at the Douglas County Fairgrounds.
The National Barrel Horse Association Kansas District 01 (NBHA KS01) is spread across 11 counties in northeast Kansas, and while races are held throughout the area, the Douglas County Fairgrounds offers a year-round riding ...
A Lawrence man who has frequently been disruptive and at times violent in court and in jail was sentenced to two additional years in prison on Friday for spitting in a correctional officer's mouth.
The man, John Timothy Price, 36, was convicted of one felony count of battery on a law enforcement officer after a one-day trial in May. The charge relates to an incident on Sept. 17, 2022, when Price while in ...
A Eudora man was ordered to stand trial on Wednesday after a teenage girl testified that he touched her in ways that made her feel uncomfortable and repeatedly exposed himself to her on video chat while she was playing online video games.
After a hearing in Douglas County District Court that was extended across two days, Judge Sally Pokorny ordered Justin Robert Royer, 43, to stand trial on two felony counts of ...
A Lawrence man who was convicted earlier this year of killing a 20-year-old Topeka man pleaded guilty on Wednesday to threatening a corrections officer while in custody.
Maliqe Crenshaw, 24, pleaded guilty in Douglas County District Court to one count of criminal threat as part of a plea agreement, and the state dismissed a count of battery on a law enforcement officer that he was originally charged with.
The ...
"I don’t like it when Mateo touches my bottom at naptime."
Those words, a Lawrence mother testified Tuesday in Douglas County District Court, were from her 3-year-old daughter when she was putting her to bed one night in July of 2022. And they were a first sign for her that something was wrong at her child's preschool, Raintree Montessori School — she knew her daughter used that word, "bottom," to refer not ...
