Updated at 5:55 p.m. Tuesday, April 28
Two Douglas County Jail inmates charged with gun crimes and awaiting trial are now being charged with trafficking contraband in a correctional facility.
Eighteen-year-old Caiden Clem, who has been charged with four counts of aggravated assault and one count of criminal possession of a weapon by a felon in the Jan. 17 shooting at The Hawk bar, was arrested Monday afternoon ...
Updated at 4:55 p.m. Tuesday, April 28
A transgender Lawrence woman on Friday filed a lawsuit against the state of Kansas after it invalidated her driver's license under a state law known as SB 244.
The woman, Jamie Michelle Miller, born in 1971, underwent irreversible genital reassignment surgery 13 years ago, according to the suit, and has court orders from Douglas County recognizing that her gender is ...
A man who pointed a fake rifle at two people out of the backseat window of a car was convicted of felony criminal threat on Tuesday in Douglas County District Court.
Tzaddi Fouch Jennings, 33, was originally charged with two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, which the criminal complaint listed as an AR-style gun. It later turned out, though, that the weapon was "a toy airsoft" gun, in the words ...
A man who was convicted of aggravated battery following a drunk-driving incident that injured a person last summer was sentenced on Tuesday to 10 months in prison, suspended to 18 months of probation.
Kody Rothfus, 34, pleaded no contest on March 6 to one count of aggravated battery while driving under the influence. The offense was originally charged as a level 5 person felony, but was lowered to a level 8 as ...
Multiple fire department trucks responded just after noon Monday to an incident at Warren-McElwain Mortuary.
Battalion Chief Aaron Flory said Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical units were called to a structure fire at the funeral home, 120 W. 13th St., but when they arrived they detected only an odor of smoke inside the building and located a seized motor on an HVAC handler on the roof, which was evidently ...
Updated at 11 a.m. Monday, April 27
A 30-year-old man who was accused of stabbing another man outside a Lawrence restaurant two years ago was sentenced on Monday to 12 months in prison, suspended to 24 months of probation.
The defendant, Edgar Oropeza Diaz, was originally charged with aggravated battery as a level 4 person felony but pleaded no contest in March to a less serious level 7 person felony. With ...
