Updated at 5:02 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 8
A Douglas County jury convicted a man on Wednesday of felony sexual extortion after he threatened to release nude pictures of a woman taken when she was a teen. The jury could not agree on a second count of the same crime.
The man, Devaris Lamar Howard, 21, of Gadsden, Alabama, was charged in Douglas County District Court with two felony counts of sexual extortion. The ...
A Douglas County jury will begin deliberating a case of sexual extortion on Wednesday after a two-day trial at which the state alleged that an Alabama man repeatedly threatened a woman that he would release nude images of her from when she was just 13 years old.
The accused, Devaris Lamar Howard, 21, of Gadsden, Alabama, is charged in Douglas County District Court with two felony counts of sexual extortion. ...
Updated at 11:49 a.m. Monday, Nov. 6
Lawrence High School lifted a lockdown Monday morning after about 30 minutes. The lockdown was imposed after a 14-year-old student reportedly brought a firearm to the school. Police said they eventually found a pellet gun at a park nearby.
The lockdown at the school, 1901 Louisiana St., started around 10 a.m. and was lifted around 10:30 a.m. Social media posts from Lawrence ...
Updated at 10:19 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 8
Indigenous art on a bus stop was destroyed in North Lawrence after an apparent vandalism incident.
The bus stop, located near the intersection of Locust and North Third streets, had holes in each of its glass walls and was covered in police tape on Monday.
The bus stop is one of 10 artworks by six artists that are on display on glass bus shelters around town. The ...
A Lawrence man was sentenced to nearly 30 years in prison on Friday for sex crimes involving a 7-year-old.
The man, Jason Edward Dallinga, 42, was originally charged with four counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child by engaging in lewd touching to satisfy a sexual desire, according to charging documents. The charges relate to incidents between January 2022 and October 2022, as the Journal-World ...
A Lawrence man was sentenced to 13.5 years in prison on Friday in a burglary and assault case in which police used a digital “geo-fence” to track his movements.
The man, Lee Andrew Mitchell Pennington, 35, was convicted by a jury in September of 2022 for one felony count of aggravated burglary, one felony count of aggravated assault and one misdemeanor count of stalking.
As the Journal-World previously ...
