A 39-year-old homeless man has been charged with two felonies after allegedly cutting another man with a knife Tuesday in downtown Lawrence.
The man, Dau Cuiebet Jok, was taken into custody shortly before 9 p.m. in the 700 block of Vermont Street, where police had been dispatched to a disturbance with weapons. Responding officers quickly detained a potential suspect and worked to get a statement from a man with ...
Three of the seven people seeking to fill a vacant seat on the Kansas Supreme Court are from Lawrence, and you can watch their live job interviews on Thursday.
The Lawrence candidates will have interviews in Topeka as follows: Douglas County District Court Judge Carl Folsom III at 10 a.m.; Douglas County District Court Judge Amy Hanley at 11:15 a.m.; and Lawrence attorney Meryl Carver-Allmond at 1:30 p.m.
The ...
A Douglas County prosecutor on Tuesday vehemently objected to the bond being lowered for a 75-year-old man accused of molesting a young boy, telling the court that the man had confessed to sex crimes that are punishable by life in prison.
Defendant Steven Braswell, of Lawrence, was in Judge Stacey Donovan's courtroom pleading to be released on an own-recognizance bond, meaning he would not have to pay any money ...
Updated at 6:04 p.m. Monday, May 18
Douglas County jurors on Monday found a 55-year-old Lawrence man guilty of nine felonies, including two counts of first-degree murder, related to a crime spree in the summer of 2022.
The defendant, Rodney Marshall, was also found guilty of four counts of attempted intentional second-degree murder, rather than the three counts of attempted capital murder and one count of ...
A 21-year-old Lawrence man was arrested on Saturday on suspicion of stealing thousands of dollars from the Lawrence grocery store that employed him.
The man, Ethan Cade Waters, was taken into custody after the store asset manager at the Dillons at 3000 W. Sixth St. informed the police about an investigation the store had conducted internally regarding an employee.
"The asset manager presented the officer with ...
Updated at 12:09 p.m. Saturday, May 16
A Douglas County judge on Friday issued a temporary order blocking the State of Kansas from enforcing parts of a law that would prevent minors from receiving gender-affirming care, saying that the plaintiffs had shown a reasonable probability that they would suffer irreparable harm if the law stood during the pendency of the lawsuit.
Attorney General Kris Kobach on ...
