Government officials continue to say very little about a cybersecurity issue that has significantly affected taxpayer-funded computer systems, including whether incidents in the City of Eudora and the Douglas County Sheriff's Office are related and whether the incidents have exposed the personal financial and other private data of residents.
After initially saying nothing apart from noting “technical issues" ...
A Lawrence teen who was seriously injured in a fatal car accident last year in Leavenworth County was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of involuntary manslaughter.
Kaiden Jordan Jimenez was taken into custody in Overland Park on a felony warrant out of Leavenworth County, though it wasn't immediately clear if the warrant pertained to the 2025 wreck or to some other matter.
As the Journal-World reported, Jimenez ...
A former murder defendant was ordered on Wednesday to stand trial for robbery and aggravated burglary.
Julius Beasley was arrested on suspicion of the two felonies in March, less than three weeks after the Douglas County District Attorney’s Office dropped a murder charge against him. He has pleaded not guilty.
Judge Stacey Donovan heard evidence on the new charges and found probable cause to bind Beasley ...
Updated at 3:57 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 2
Anyone who has visited the new Judicial and Law Enforcement Center more than once has likely heard about — or personally experienced — frustrations with the lone elevator available to the public.
The county's courtrooms are located in what's called the "tower," the brand new addition to the south of the JLEC, which is undergoing a nearly $60 million overhaul. The ...
Updated at 2:44 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2026
A man who was arrested in a Sunday homicide in downtown Lawrence has not been charged in the incident, but police say "he remains the suspect."
Keisonn Smith, 25, of Topeka, was arrested Sunday after the fatal stabbing of 20-year-old McMillin Tutu, of Kansas City, Missouri.
Lawrence police had said that evidence pointed to Smith as the suspect, and he was arrested ...
A Lawrence man will spend three years on probation for a sex crime against an 11-year-old girl, pursuant to a plea agreement with the Douglas County District Attorney's Office.
The sex offender, Shelton Robertson, was originally charged with rape in the July 2021 incident in which he got into bed with a child and assaulted her, but in June he entered a plea to two counts of aggravated sexual battery — a ...
