More than two weeks after a woman was found bound and unconscious in Lawrence, law enforcement has provided no further information about the incident.
Reached via email Tuesday, Osage County Attorney Jack Hobbs said that the matter was still under investigation by the Osage County sheriff and that he would consider potential charges once he had received the complete contents of the investigation.
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Lawrence police provided little new information Tuesday on an accident that injured three people the previous evening at Kansas Highway 10 and West Sixth Street.
First responders were dispatched to the three-vehicle crash around 6:10 p.m. Monday, the Journal-World reported. One person was taken by air ambulance to an area hospital with serious injuries, police said, and two others were taken by ambulance to ...
A man who stands accused in two grease theft incidents is back in Douglas County District Court this week after recently missing hearings in his case.
Byron P. Aston, 29, of Springfield, Mo., was first charged Feb. 27 with low-level felony theft for allegedly stealing more than a ton of used cooking grease from bins behind three downtown Lawrence restaurants.
In a second case, prosecutors allege that Aston ...
A man convicted in connection with a robbery in a series that took place in Lawrence in early 2018 was sentenced to just short of five years in prison Monday in Douglas County District Court.
Corey Tremain Allen, 31, of McDonough, Ga., pleaded no contest Sept. 10, and Judge Kay Huff found him guilty of three felony charges: robbery, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and criminal threat.
Allen and ...
Story updated at 1:13 p.m. Monday:
More than three years after a 9-month-old boy was found unresponsive at a Eudora day care, the woman convicted of his murder has been sentenced to more than 10 years in prison.
Carrody Melissa Buchhorn, now 45, was found guilty of second-degree murder on July 26, 2018. Her bond was revoked that day, and she has been in custody at the Douglas County Jail since.
Buchhorn’s ...
Updated at 9:40 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 19
Four people were believed to have suffered injuries after a multivehicle accident west of U.S. Highway 40 and Kansas Highway 10 Sunday evening, according to the Kansas Highway Patrol.
A report from the KHP says a Saturn Ion driven by Justin David Rupnicki, 27, of Topeka, was on U.S. Highway 40 and stopped to turn south on East 800 Road around 5:50 p.m. Sunday.
The ...
