A Douglas County judge on Thursday denied motions for summary judgment filed by both the City of Lawrence and Teamsters Local No. 696, the union representing the city’s solid waste and Municipal Services and Operations employees, in a dispute over workplace conditions and unresolved grievances.
Summary judgment is a ruling that can be made as a matter of law; that is, when a judge finds there are no issues of ...
A Manhattan man was sentenced to two years of probation on Thursday in Douglas County District Court for attempted aggravated battery in a case in which he was originally charged with raping a teenager.
The man, Preston Meier Jones, 22, pleaded no contest in July, as part of a plea deal, to one count of attempted aggravated battery with a sexually motivated finding, as the Journal-World reported. The charge ...
A man who was acquitted in the shooting death of a 14-year-old Lawrence boy has filed to have his arrest and court records expunged.
The man, Derrick Del Reed, 19, filed to expunge the arrest records and charging records on Aug. 5. If the court grants the expungement, records of his arrest in connection with the charge will be removed from Douglas County jail records and any publicly available records will ...
An Olathe mother who was violently struck by an impaired driver as her family looked on in horror is sharing her story of survival in hopes of sparing others similar devastation.
Amy Ebers-Jumet's heart actually stopped beating that day four years ago. It was only because paramedics were somehow able to revive her that she lived to see her family again — and to become a fierce advocate for sober ...
A man accused of numerous violent felonies has been paying for GPS monitoring to stay out of jail but not paying his attorney, which led on Tuesday to his attorney withdrawing and the creation of further delay in the case.
"Not the smartest move, in my opinion," said Judge Amy Hanley, who told the man, Aaron Michael Davidson, that paying for his attorney should have been a priority.
Davidson, 23, is charged in ...
Two people have been sentenced to prison by a federal court in connection with an armed robbery in 2022 at a Lawrence cellphone store where the store clerks were bound with duct tape and held at gunpoint while robbers took more than $50,000 in merchandise.
Darien Khalil Chambers, 31, and Iveth Moreno, 23, pleaded guilty to one felony count each of interference with commerce by robbery and one count of use of a ...
