Recent visitors to downtown Lawrence may have noticed a few things looking different near 11th and Massachusetts streets. The obvious one is the hulking addition taking shape to the south of the Judicial and Law Enforcement Center. The more subtle one is the absence of trees on the lawn between the JLEC and the historic Douglas County Courthouse.
About a dozen stumps now dot the once-shady green space, remnants ...
Knowing that he could be going to prison for years, a convicted rapist fervently hugged his new wife Tuesday before the judge entered the courtroom to hear several motions in his case and to potentially sentence him.
About an hour into the hearing, however, it was clear that Reston Phillips, who got married shortly after his May conviction, would not be going to prison but would be returning to his mother's ...
Updated at 3:32 p.m. Monday, Nov. 24
Several people were held at gunpoint over the weekend and some were strip-searched after a man claimed money had been stolen from him at an apartment on Michigan Street, according to Lawrence police.
LPD's Crisis Response Team was activated early Sunday morning to execute a search warrant after the people had been held for nearly three hours.
On Monday, the Douglas ...
A registered sex offender who was found guilty of another sex crime against a child was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Thursday in Douglas County District Court.
The offender, Calvin Lee Payne, 36, was convicted in September after pleading no contest to one count of criminal sodomy against a child who was 13 at the time of the offense in June 2022. As part of his agreement with the Douglas County District ...
A woman who has "detransitioned" — and who regrets her transition from female to male as a young teen — told a Douglas County judge on Thursday that she supports Kansas' law that bans gender-affirming medical interventions for minors.
"If California had a law like this when I was 13, none of this would have happened to me," said Chloe Cole, a well-known 21-year-old activist from California who has testified ...
Former Douglas County District Attorney Suzanne Valdez always believed that Carrody Buchhorn murdered 9-month-old Oliver Ortiz at a Eudora day care in 2016, and an expert's report saying that Oliver died of natural causes didn't change her mind one bit, she testified Wednesday at Buchhorn's wrongful conviction trial.
In fact, when she received the report of forensic pathologist Jane Turner, whom she had hired, ...
