A Lawrence man who allegedly fired his gun at a police officer during a standoff pleaded no contest Wednesday and was convicted of attempted murder in the first degree and aggravated burglary.
Abdul Jalil K. Hussein, 36, was charged in connection with multiple incidents: allegedly firing a gun into the air outside his home, which led to an hourslong standoff with police in December 2017; allegedly kicking in ...
Updated at 9:15 a.m. Tuesday
A former University of Kansas track and field athlete who was part of the U.S. Olympic team for the 2012 games in London was arrested in Lawrence early Tuesday morning.
Diamond B. Dixon, 27, was arrested around 1 a.m. in the 1400 block of Massachusetts Street on suspicion of interference with law enforcement and failure to appear, according to the Douglas County Jail booking log. ...
A former tenure track professor at the University of Kansas claimed during a hearing Tuesday that violations of faculty evaluation policy and procedures led to her being terminated.
A lawyer for the university, however, argued that her allegations of policy violations were “harmless errors, if that,” and rather that she was terminated because her research progress was insufficient.
Catherine Joritz, a ...
A man who is alleged to have facilitated a series of burglaries in Lawrence was convicted Tuesday in Douglas County District Court.
True J. Shipley, 21, pleaded no contest to three counts of robbery, midlevel-severity felonies, Cheryl Wright Kunard, assistant to the Douglas County district attorney, told the Journal-World via email. At the time of his arrest, Shipley had been living in Georgia for a brief ...
When a Gardner man reported to a Douglas County Sheriff’s Office deputy that his truck had been stolen, parts of the story didn’t add up, according to court documents.
The deputy later concluded that the man had falsely reported the truck stolen in an attempt to avoid drunken driving charges, he wrote.
Briley J. Bulva, 23, appeared on a summons and was charged June 27 in Douglas County District Court with ...
Members of the Islamic Center of Lawrence had just visited in droves to celebrate Eid al-Adha the weekend prior to a burglary on Aug. 13, according to court documents.
So a leader of the center told police he thought that between $1,000 and $2,000 worth of cash donations had likely been stolen. The suspect had reportedly taken two whole lockboxes and removed the padlock from a third to steal the cash ...
