Updated at 4:35 p.m. Friday, Aug. 22
A former Raintree Montessori School employee accused of inappropriately touching two preschoolers three years ago at the private school took a plea agreement on Friday and faces a sentence of more than 15 years in prison.
Mateo Clavel Wills, 22, pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated kidnapping and one count of aggravated indecent liberties with a child on Friday in ...
A Lawrence police officer will not be immune from prosecution after a Shawnee County judge on Monday rejected the officer's claim of self-defense and found his testimony "not credible."
Lt. Myrone Grady, an award-winning, 23-year-veteran with the Lawrence Police Department, was charged with misdemeanor battery last February after allegedly striking a man and knocking him down following Grady's son's basketball ...
A 36-year-old registered sex offender was ordered on Thursday to stand trial after a woman testified that he raped her three years ago at a Lawrence mobile home park.
The man, Michael Ken Aller, of Lawrence, entered a plea of not guilty at the conclusion of Thursday's preliminary hearing and is scheduled to stand trial in January 2026. He is currently out of custody on a $60,000 bond.
The woman, in her 40s, ...
Updated at 9:40 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 14
The Douglas County District Attorney's Office and the lawyer for a man accused of numerous sex crimes are attempting to reach a "global resolution" for five separate cases the man is facing.
The process involves working with the U.S. Attorney's Office, which could potentially file federal charges against the man, Kenneth Wayne Soap, for allegedly preying on girls at ...
A claim by a child plaintiff that the Lawrence school district is vicariously liable for sexual battery by a speech pathologist at a Lawrence elementary school will move forward for now.
The civil lawsuit relates to allegations that the school district bears some responsibility for the actions of its former Prairie Park Elementary employee, speech pathologist Mark Gridley, who is facing multiple criminal ...
A teenage boy has been charged with a felony after he allegedly took a nude photo of a younger special needs student last spring and shared it, and the Lawrence Police Department has acknowledged that the case was initially mishandled.
The student, a juvenile whom the Journal-World is not naming, now faces one count of aggravated unlawful transmission of a visual depiction of a child. The charge filed last week ...
