Story updated at 4:50 p.m. Thursday, July 25:
Law enforcement closed the Douglas County Courthouse and surrounding areas for about 2 1/2 hours Thursday after a bomb threat was called into dispatchers.
Lt. Kristen Channel, of the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, said at the scene that Kansas Highway Patrol bomb-sniffing dogs searched the courthouse as well as the Douglas County Judicial and Law Enforcement ...
The Lawrence Police Department has arrested a man in connection with a shooting that didn’t injure anyone but sent people running on June 25.
Around 11 that evening at an apartment complex in the 1000 block of West 24th Street, multiple callers reported hearing gunshots and seeing people run into a nearby residence, Sgt. Amy Rhoads told the Journal-World the following day.
A 24-year-old Lawrence man was ...
A judge has set a significantly higher bond for a man whose case could spark changes in the way bond procedures work in Douglas County.
In the past two years, Alfred Dewayne Sanders, 47, of Lawrence, has been released from the Douglas County Jail three times after posting bond, court records show. In two of those cases, he'd been arrested on suspicion of drug offenses and theft, but in the first and most ...
Story updated at 11:35 a.m. Wednesday, July 24:
A victim of alleged child sex crimes, now 19, recently told Lawrence police that she couldn’t tell anyone what happened when she was 14 because she cared about the man now charged with molesting her, and she didn’t want anything to happen to him.
Joseph Christopher Hess, 35, of Lawrence, was charged in June with six felonies that allegedly occurred between ...
A defendant accused of stealing grease will go to trial later this year, and he now faces additional charges — also related to grease theft.
Byron Parker Aston, 28, of Springfield, Mo., and a co-defendant were arrested in February, and each was charged with one count of theft after investigators for an international company reportedly got video of the men stealing grease from bins behind restaurants on ...
A 50-year-old Topeka man has pleaded guilty to felony charges connected to cable box battery thefts.
Quentin Raymond Sowers was initially charged in Douglas County District Court with 30 counts of theft, burglary and property damage, including three counts of theft of batteries and power units valued at more than $1,500 apiece, the Journal-World reported in April. Authorities alleged that he was prying open ...
