A Lawrence man who is currently facing charges in multiple cases for running from police and damaging property in the process was allegedly behind the wheel again on Monday driving on the river levee trail before crashing into a fire hydrant and stopping in a field.
The man, Steven Carl Drake Jr., 49, is charged in Douglas County District Court with one count of aggravated battery on a law enforcement officer ...
A Lawrence man was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Friday for striking an off-duty police officer with a tire iron in 2022. He is the fifth and final defendant to be sentenced in the case.
The man, Zachary Taylor Maddux, 20, of Lawrence, pleaded guilty to one felony count of aggravated battery in July as part of a plea agreement that lowered his original charge from attempted first-degree murder, as the ...
A man accused of threatening multiple people with a realistic paintball gun after pursuing other drivers and cutting them off in traffic is standing trial this week in Douglas County District Court.
Jeremy James Shacklett, 47, is charged with three felony counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, according to charging documents. The charges relate to two incidents in 2023: one on Jan. 1 and one on Jan. ...
A man was granted probation on Monday for a methamphetamine conviction after making a deal with the Douglas County District Attorney's Office that dropped charges related to an alleged stabbing at a homeless camp.
The man, Joseph Leonard Klebenstein, 32, was originally charged with one felony count of aggravated battery, one felony count of possession of methamphetamine and one misdemeanor count of possession ...
What did the chaos and destruction of Quantrill's Raid in August 1863 look like? On some level, we don't really know.
There are no photographs of the bloody, chaotic attack in the middle of the Civil War by William Quantrill and his guerrilla group. The closest thing we have, according to the Watkins Museum, is a single sketch, drawn from memory by a survivor of the raid.
Yet if you look around the Watkins' ...
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 ...
