The Civil War is said to have officially started at Fort Sumter in South Carolina in 1861, but Bleeding Kansas had been home to numerous antislavery battles well before that, including the Battle of Black Jack just outside of Baldwin City.
Some historians say Black Jack may have been the war’s first true battle when abolitionist John Brown and a group of men attacked pro-slavery agitators led by Henry Clay ...
A Lawrence man who is alleged to have stabbed a man during an altercation earlier this month has been arrested and charged with battery.
The man, Rashidi Edward McClelland, 47, is charged in Douglas County District Court with one count of felony aggravated battery. The charge is in connection with an incident on Nov. 4 around 3:15 a.m. at 3250 Michigan St. when McClelland is alleged to have been in an ...
A Lawrence man was sentenced to more than a year in prison on Wednesday in connection with an incident in which he was alleged to have beaten a man with a hammer and tried to run over two sheriff’s deputies.
Ronald Dwayne Walters, 51, of Lawrence, pleaded no contest in October to one count of felony criminal threat as part of a plea agreement in which the state dismissed two felony counts of aggravated ...
A Lawrence man who has repeatedly called himself a "monster" after allegations of numerous sex crimes came to light was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday after delivering a sexually graphic plea for leniency.
Dustyn Dwayne Polk, 49, was convicted in Douglas County District Court after a bench trial in October of one count of rape, one count of aggravated indecent liberties with a child and one count of ...
A Lawrence man who is accused of raping a young girl was ordered on Wednesday to stand trial in Douglas County District Court.
Shelton Lane Robertson, 22, is charged with one felony count of rape. The charge, filed in July 2023, relates to an incident on July 31, 2021, involving a girl born in 2010. The charge is an off-grid felony, meaning that if Robertson is convicted he could be sentenced to life in prison. ...
Albert Wilson's wrongful conviction and imprisonment lawsuit, which has sat in limbo for months, may now hinge on something the judge earlier said was irrelevant: why prosecutors chose to drop their rape case against Wilson in 2021.
On Tuesday, 10 months after evidence and arguments were presented in the civil trial in Wilson's suit, Judge Carl Folsom III turned back the clock on the case by reopening ...
