A 24-year-old man who was operating a vehicle with more than four times the legal limit of alcohol in his bloodstream was convicted of his fourth DUI — a felony — on Thursday in Douglas County District Court.
The defendant, Hunter Neis, was arrested for his fourth DUI in August of last year, just four months after he was stopped for his third DUI in Osage County, in which his blood-alcohol level was more ...
A senior apartment complex just south of downtown Lawrence was evacuated late Wednesday morning after a fire in one of the units.
No one was injured in the incident, Battalion Chief Aaron Flory said, but one unit was fire-damaged and multiple units were water-damaged by sprinklers. He said the cause of the fire was under investigation.
Firefighters were called to the complex at 1700 Massachusetts, known as ...
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 ...
Updated at 4:55 p.m. Tuesday, April 28
A transgender Lawrence woman on Friday filed a lawsuit against the state of Kansas after it invalidated her driver's license under a state law known as SB 244.
The woman, Jamie Michelle Miller, born in 1971, underwent irreversible genital reassignment surgery 13 years ago, according to the suit, and has court orders from Douglas County recognizing that her gender is ...
A man who pointed a fake rifle at two people out of the backseat window of a car was convicted of felony criminal threat on Tuesday in Douglas County District Court.
Tzaddi Fouch Jennings, 33, was originally charged with two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, which the criminal complaint listed as an AR-style gun. It later turned out, though, that the weapon was "a toy airsoft" gun, in the words ...
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 ...
