A Lawrence police officer has resigned from the force after being charged with a felony in an apparent off-duty road rage incident in Johnson County.
Jeffrey B. Holtzman, 52, of Lawrence, is charged with aggravated assault for allegedly threatening another man with a deadly weapon on Oct. 18, 2018, according to a complaint filed the following day in Johnson County District Court. The case is still pending.
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A 23-year-old man has been arrested on charges that he raped an incapacitated person last year.
Nicholas J. Lewis, of Lawrence, was booked into jail on the charges over the weekend, jail records indicate.
He’s charged with one count of rape, a felony, in connection with an incident that occurred in early May 2018, according to a complaint filed in late November in Douglas County District Court.
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Appeals of a Wyandotte County murder case and a Topeka civil case are on the agenda for the Kansas Supreme Court’s upcoming special session in Lawrence, the Kansas Office of Judicial Administration announced Monday.
The session is scheduled from 6:30 p.m. to about 8 p.m. April 1 at the Lied Center, 1600 Stewart Drive on the University of Kansas campus.
The Wyandotte County case is an appeal of the felony ...
A Lawrence man has been convicted of molesting an 11-year-old girl.
Robert W. Copas, 36, of Lawrence, pleaded no contest Monday in Douglas County District Court to a single count of aggravated indecent liberties with a child, a felony. Prior to the plea deal, Copas had been charged with a more severe level of the same crime.
Under sentencing guidelines, Copas will go to prison after his sentencing on April ...
A year after he allegedly teamed up with a woman to kill a man at Perry Lake, Jonathan D. Blevins is scheduled to stand trial for murder in a case that has Douglas County ties.
A weeklong trial for Blevins is set to begin Monday in Jefferson County District Court in Oskaloosa.
Blevins is charged with first-degree murder for allegedly intentionally killing 22-year-old Taylor D. Sawyer with premeditation on ...
A man accused of fatally shooting three people and injuring a fourth in downtown Lawrence asked a judge to find that he acted legally in self-defense, and drop his charges.
The judge rejected that request Friday.
The murder trial against Anthony L. Roberts Jr., 21, of Topeka, remains scheduled to begin June 10.
Roberts’ self-defense immunity request was filed last fall by his original attorney, who ended up ...
