A judge on Thursday sentenced a man to more than two years in prison following his Dec. 11 plea deal to attempted aggravated battery.
Jason Lee Stark, 35, was facing three felony charges — attempted aggravated robbery, interference with law enforcement and criminal use of weapons — stemming from an April 7, 2025, incident in which he was accused of using a sawed-off shotgun to force a Lawrence man to turn ...
A Douglas County judge on Friday praised a teenager's courage for recounting the nightmare she said she had endured for years at the hands of "a monster, a rapist and a pedophile."
"To say those things in a room full of people" took a commendable amount of strength, Judge Stacey Donovan told the survivor, who detailed at length the abuse she suffered at the hands of Adrian Raye Wisdom, who will now spend more ...
Updated at 3:52 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 15
Nearly three months after a driver reportedly crossed a highway's center line and killed an area actor in a head-on collision, little is publicly known about the investigation into the fatality, but Douglas County District Attorney Dakota Loomis said he would make a charging decision when he has all the evidence.
The Journal-World's records requests to the Kansas Highway ...
A defendant accused of aggravated kidnapping and aggravated robbery was set to have a preliminary hearing on Thursday but instead got a new attorney.
Garnel Andreus Moore Williams, 31, is facing the two felony charges for a November incident in which Lawrence police said several people were held at gunpoint for hours and some were strip-searched after Moore Williams claimed money had been stolen from him at an ...
A defendant accused of viciously attacking a homeless man in downtown Lawrence has been ordered to stand trial, although plea negotiations are underway.
The 49-year-old man testified that the defendant, Shaun Donovan Bernie, 33, attacked him from behind last fall, causing significant injuries to his head and disfiguring his hand.
The man testified that Bernie, who was also homeless at the time, would regularly ...
A Douglas County judge will soon decide whether to order a man to stand trial for child abuse after a store's video camera captured him striking a young boy repeatedly with a belt.
The state at Tuesday's preliminary hearing for the man portrayed the incident as a violent felony, while the man's appointed attorney sought to characterize it as parental discipline of a child with extremely difficult behavioral ...
