Updated at 11:15 a.m. Monday, April 13
The families of two men who were shot in January at The Hawk, one fatally, expressed disbelief Monday when they got word, last minute, that another continuance was granted for the defense.
"Are you (expletive) kidding me?" one relative said as prosecutor Eve Kemple returned from the judge's chambers with the news.
"This is ridiculous," another said through tears as ...
Judge Sally Pokorny warned the crowd at her retirement ceremony Friday that she was a "crier," and sure enough she shed a few tears almost immediately as she declared "I'm the luckiest woman in the world."
That was the "bottom line of my entire life," she said: luck.
Luck in having the parents, neighbors, teachers and lifelong friends she made growing up in Independence, Kansas. Luck in her education, ...
When Kris Wilcoxson heard recently that Judge Sally Pokorny would be retiring on April 10, he made a beeline over to the courthouse to thank her.
Pokorny had just wrapped up one of her final sessions of Behavioral Health Court, which she presided over in a multi-zippered black leather jacket — prompting some to ask where her Harley was.
As people milled about, Wilcoxson charged up the aisle and ...
Two Hispanic construction workers on Thursday told a Douglas County judge that they still have nightmares about an armed and angry man assaulting them one summer morning two years ago as they worked.
They thought the man, Craig Endecott, of Baldwin City, was going to kill them with his rifle, they said in written statements read aloud in court by a Spanish-language interpreter. A third statement, written in ...
A 34-year-old man was convicted on Tuesday in Douglas County District Court of trying to kill his grandfather last summer by firing multiple bullets into his Lawrence residence.
The defendant, Douglas Adam Speight, was originally charged with attempted first-degree murder in the June 3, 2025, incident, but pleaded no contest Tuesday to attempted voluntary manslaughter with a firearm — a plea agreement that ...
Numerous repairs were underway at a Lawrence appliance store Monday afternoon after it was struck by a car earlier in the day.
Jack Flynn, the sales manager at Stoneback Appliance, 925 Iowa St., told the Journal-World that the incident at around 10 a.m. happened very quickly. He initially thought the incredibly loud noise he heard was a display of dishwashers falling over in the store, but he soon realized a ...
