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 ...
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 ...
A 34-year-old Baldwin City woman was arrested Sunday after allegedly assaulting a police officer with a rock and barricading herself inside a residence.
The officer responded to a domestic violence call just after 9 a.m. Sunday in the 200 block of Eisenhower Street, according to a news release from Baldwin City Police Chief Mike Pattrick.
The suspect reportedly threw a large rock at the responding officer and ...
A woman who scheduled a massage at a Baldwin City yoga studio, hoping to get some relief from lower back pain, instead became the victim of a sexual assault at the hands of a male massage therapist, according to allegations in a recently released arrest affidavit.
The woman's report of the incident to police prompted more than half a dozen other women to quickly come forward with similar stories of what they ...
