With just a few school credits to her name as she entered her senior year of high school, Gracyn Garrett was ready to quit.
After bad experiences at Lawrence High School and Lawrence Virtual School, Garrett felt she had no other options. So last summer, she asked the school district for paperwork to officially drop out of high school.
“I was at my breaking point,” Garrett recently told the Journal-World. ...
A Lawrence skateboarder who was injured during a police stop has filed a lawsuit against Lawrence and Douglas County law enforcement agencies.
Duc M. Tran, 45, filed a federal complaint on Friday that alleges Tran “was unconstitutionally beaten, injured, arrested, prosecuted, and eventually exonerated on charges manufactured” by local law enforcement.
The lawsuit alleges excessive force, battery, ...
Emergency crews responded to two overnight fires in eastern Lawrence this week.
Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical said in a news release that it responded to a fire in a salvage yard at the 12th and Haskell Recycling Center, 1006 E. 11th St., around 1:58 a.m. Friday.
When firefighters arrived, flames were visible in a storage building that involved a pile of salvage waste, the department said. The ...
Rontarus Washington Jr. will no longer face a second jury trial this September in his long-running murder case, as the Douglas County District Court allowed the trial to be delayed another year.
During a hearing on Friday, Judge James McCabria approved a request from Washington's new defense counsel to push the trial to July 2022. However, before doing so, he expressed frustration with both the defense and ...
A Lawrence man is facing multiple felony charges for alleged sexual contact with a 14-year-old.
Trey L. Gibson, 19, was formally charged Thursday in Douglas County District Court with two counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child, one for sexual intercourse and the other for lewd fondling. He was also charged with one count of criminal sodomy. All three are felonies.
Gibson was arrested around 10:20 ...
A man accused of raping a Eudora woman allegedly leaped across her kitchen table and grabbed her before assaulting her in her living room, according to a affidavit supporting the man’s arrest.
The man also allegedly apologized to the woman repeatedly after the incident, the woman told police.
“He just kept apologizing,” she said.
Griffin D. Oxley, 20, is charged with one count of rape in Douglas County ...
