The Democratic primary winners of Douglas County’s top law enforcement positions on Monday affirmed their commitment to work with a national nonprofit organization focused on criminal justice reform.
Suzanne Valdez, the presumed next district attorney, and Lt. Jay Armbrister, the presumed next sheriff, spoke Monday evening during an annual Community Problems Assembly hosted by Justice Matters, a local ...
Updated at 4:44 p.m. Monday
A woman who was charged in January 2019 with filing a false report of rape has filed a lawsuit in federal court against the City of Lawrence, multiple Lawrence police officers and the University of Kansas.
The woman had reported to Lawrence police in September 2018 that she had been sexually assaulted by a fellow KU student while she was too intoxicated to consent. She later ...
Story updated at 3:01 p.m. Monday:
First responders were called for multiple injury crashes Monday as snow and ice arrived in Douglas County.
In preparation for the first day of wintry weather this season, Douglas County crews worked overnight to treat roads, but they were still icy in some areas and ranged from spotty to covered in a few others, according to a 6:30 a.m. Facebook post from the Douglas County ...
An Overland Park man was convicted Friday in connection with a December 2019 shooting that injured a teenage boy in Lawrence.
Brandon R. Jimenez, 34, had been charged Sept. 29 with second-degree attempted murder, conspiracy to commit aggravated robbery and attempted aggravated robbery, all mid- to high-level felonies. During a hearing on Friday, however, he pleaded no contest to attempted aggravated battery, ...
Updated at 2:10 p.m. Friday
A federal grand jury has indicted a Lawrence man in connection with a bank robbery, and the Douglas County district attorney has moved to dismiss the man’s local case.
James M. Pugh, 59, was arrested hours after a robbery was reported on Jan. 31 at Landmark National Bank, 2710 Iowa St. He was charged in Douglas County District Court with one count of robbery, a midlevel-severity ...
Douglas County District Court Judge Sally Pokorny will join the Kansas Supreme Court to hear oral arguments in two cases on Tuesday, according to a news release from the Kansas Judicial Branch.
The first case Pokorny will hear with the court is an appeal in a Reno County criminal case. Samuel J. Vonachen, now 21, was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder, one count of attempted first-degree murder and ...
