The owner of a downtown Lawrence bar is asking a federal judge to immediately stop, pending the duration of a lawsuit, Douglas County from enforcing a health order that requires bars to stop serving at 11 p.m.
Peach Madl, longtime owner of the Sandbar, 17 E. Eighth St., filed a lawsuit in federal court last month against Lawrence-Douglas County Health Officer Dr. Thomas Marcellino for an order he issued amid ...
A judge will make a ruling later this month on whether a man convicted in a shooting that injured two people should get a new trial.
Tommy May, 61, of Lawrence, was convicted on several charges after a jury trial in December 2019, including attempted first-degree murder, attempted second-degree murder, aggravated battery on a law enforcement officer and more.
The charges stem from a rapid series of events on ...
Prosecutors have dropped a case against a Lawrence skateboarder whose defense attorney questioned the arresting officer’s credibility.
Duc M. Tran, 45, was arrested after he was stopped for skateboarding in the street in downtown Lawrence on June 29, 2019, as the Journal-World has reported. Tran previously told the newspaper that his left elbow was fractured and both shoulders were dislocated as a result of ...
A man has reportedly lost vision in his left eye after an alleged altercation with former University of Kansas basketball player Silvio De Sousa, according to court documents.
De Sousa, 22, is facing a charge of aggravated battery, a level-5 or midlevel-severity felony, in connection with an alleged incident that occurred at 2:36 a.m. Jan. 1 outside a Lawrence bar.
An affidavit supporting the charge says ...
A Lawrence man was sentenced Monday to three years of probation for a sex crime against a teenage girl.
Lawrence police arrested Randy Lee Flaherty, 36, in May, and he was charged in Douglas County District Court with attempted rape. He pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of aggravated sexual battery on Sept. 9.
During the plea hearing, Flaherty told the judge he had gotten in bed with the teen victim and ...
A new annual report from the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office shows that bookings into the Douglas County Jail in 2019 were the lowest the jail has seen since it opened in 2001.
According to the report, posted online Wednesday, the total of 4,363 bookings in 2019 is a 15.4% drop from 2018’s 5,158, which was the previous low. The 2017 total was 5,357, and the 2016 total was 5,329.
The monthly average of ...
