An Emporia man was sentenced to more than five years in prison on Wednesday for a battery conviction after originally being charged with rape.
The man, Romeo Devontay Martinez, 22, was charged in Douglas County District Court with one felony count of rape but entered into a plea agreement with the state in May that reduced his charge to aggravated battery. Judge Stacey Donovan made the finding that the battery ...
A Lawrence man was sentenced to more than four years in prison on Thursday as part of a plea agreement in a fentanyl overdose death case.
The man, Mason Duane Robinson, 28, was originally charged in Douglas County District Court with distributing a controlled substance causing death. The charge was in connection with the death of Angelyca LeAnn Cowdin, 23, of Lawrence, who died of acute fentanyl intoxication on ...
School is out for summer, but more than 1,000 Lawrence children are getting a near-daily reminder of local schools nonetheless.
It often comes with a spoon and fork.
Lawrence Public Schools' free summer meals program began on Monday with two daily lunch locations and a weekly distribution of meal kits. Essentially, any child in the city can take advantage of the daily lunch program, and more than 1,000 ...
Before he was even 3 years old, a boy was brutally abused by his mother's boyfriend, his grandmother alleges — so much so that the child told her that "he will break me" if it kept happening.
But when she reported the abuse in 2019, she had no idea that it would take more than four years, four prosecutors and an appeal for the case to be resolved. Nor did she know that it would never even go to trial in the ...
An attorney for a man accused of inappropriately touching two children at a Lawrence preschool where he worked has withdrawn from the case after two years, citing a conflict of interest with a witness.
The defendant, Mateo Clavel Wills, 22, of Lawrence, is charged in Douglas County District Court with four counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child under the age of 14. Two counts are alleged to have ...
A Lawrence man was bound over for trial on Wednesday on an aggravated assault charge for allegedly chasing a couple with an ax on the North Lawrence levee trail near the city-sanctioned homeless camp last year.
Brandon Eugene Snow, 33, was originally charged in Douglas County District Court with two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in connection with an incident on June 15, 2023, around 7 a.m. ...
