Updated at 5:42 p.m. Monday, Aug. 17, 2026
A Douglas County judge on Monday granted a Lawrence transgender woman the temporary restoration of her driver's license after the State of Kansas invalidated it earlier this year under a controversial anti-trans law known as SB 244.
"We're pleased with the judge's ruling," the woman's attorney, David Brown, told the Journal-World, hopeful that the temporary order ...
Updated at 5:10 p.m. Monday, Aug. 17, 2026
A dull and dingy wall in downtown Lawrence is now colorful and inviting, thanks to local Girl Scouts who spent a good part of the past year planning and painting a mural at the site.
Troop 2856 gathered Sunday to officially unveil their contribution to Lawrence's cityscape: a large wall painting depicting a number of Kansas animals that are, or could become, ...
A man who was apprehended in connection with a KU student's death last year has been charged with multiple misdemeanors that he allegedly committed two days after the student's death when he was still at large.
The more recent charges were filed earlier this summer and are in addition to the charges he was already facing connected to the hit-and-run fatality of Elsa McGrain, a 20-year-old KU student from ...
The jail booking log and other features of the Douglas County sheriff's website have been offline for days, and the sheriff's office on Friday acknowledged that it had identified "suspicious activity on certain computer systems" that had caused issues with its system.
The office had previously said only that "technical issues" were causing the disruption and declined to confirm or deny whether a hacking ...
A 20-year-old Lawrence man pleaded not guilty on Thursday in a case in which he is accused of shooting two people earlier this year and endangering others.
The man, Jaystyn James Curtiss, is now scheduled to be tried on Nov. 30.
In an amended complaint filed June 29, the Douglas County District Attorney's Office charged him with two counts of attempted first-degree murder, two counts of aggravated battery, one ...
A defendant accused of killing a man and seriously injuring the man’s child in a head-on collision last year pleaded guilty Thursday in Douglas County District Court to reckless second-degree murder and aggravated battery while driving under the influence.
The defendant, Zachary Odom, 30, of Tecumseh, killed Leonard “Skip” Schupp, 51, of Oskaloosa, while driving under the influence on July 18, 2025, on ...
