A frequent public commenter who has filed more than a dozen lawsuits claiming his civil rights have been violated lost another federal case recently — his third major defeat in his attempt to prove that he is being wronged by the government.
In mid-August, Judge Julie Robinson threw out Justin Spiehs' long-running lawsuit against the Douglas County Commission, Sheriff Jay Armbrister and other county law ...
A Topeka man has been charged with aggravated battery after allegedly bashing another man in the head with a thermos outside a Lawrence grocery store.
According to an arrest affidavit in the case, the incident left a large wound on the victim, who was "covered in blood from his head to his feet" when police arrived shortly before 1:30 p.m. on Aug. 29 at the Massachusetts Street Dillons.
Morgan Delp, 52, was ...
A man accused of murder in the highway death of a local actor waived his right to a preliminary hearing in another criminal matter on Tuesday.
Eliseo J. Munoz, 24, was scheduled to have a preliminary hearing in that matter — a case in which he's charged with a third DUI and driving while suspended — and also in the murder case. He waived his right to the hearing in the DUI case, and the hearing in the ...
The other half of a duo who conspired to throw drugs over a state prison wall has now been sentenced to six and a half years in federal prison.
Tommie Baggett, 26, was an inmate at the state prison in Hutchinson when he arranged with another felon — Jermel Fleming, 33, of Lawrence — to have a package of methamphetamine thrown over the wall. While Fleming was outside of the prison, Baggett gave him ...
The cybersecurity incident that struck public computer systems in the City of Eudora and the Douglas County Sheriff's Office was foreign ransomware that first hit the Eudora Police Department's system, the city’s recently dismissed IT administrator said.
The attack — by a hacking group out of Eastern Europe or Russia — encrypted all of the police department's files with ransomware, meaning the files were ...
A Baldwin City man on Monday was sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison for opening fire outside a bar and the town's public library nearly four years ago.
"I feel very bad about all this, and I'm sorry that any of it happened," Junah Sisney told Judge Stacey Donovan at his sentencing in Douglas County District Court.
Sisney, 23, was convicted in July after pleading guilty to one count of attempted ...
