Updated at 5:35 p.m. Wednesday, July 22
A 23-year-old man was convicted Wednesday in Douglas County District Court of two attempted murders and aggravated assault for a series of public shootings more than three years ago in downtown Baldwin City.
The defendant, Junah Sisney, was convicted after pleading guilty to one count of attempted first-degree murder, one count of attempted second-degree murder and one ...
A man accused of stealing tens of thousands of dollars from the Dillons grocery that employed him has worked out a diversion agreement with the Douglas County District Attorney's Office, his lawyer told a judge Wednesday.
"We have reached an agreement; it just needs to be typed up," Hatem Chahine, the lawyer for Ethan Waters, told Senior Judge Nancy Parrish. Chahine said that DA Dakota Loomis was "working on ...
A former award-winning paraprofessional in the Lawrence school district has been charged with two more sex crimes against children, bringing the number of criminal charges to four.
The Douglas County District Attorney's Office recently charged Caleb Zachary Rahmeier with attempted sexual exploitation of a child, which allegedly occurred between May 21, 2022, and Sept. 3, 2024, and sexual exploitation of a ...
A man was found deceased last week in a home following a lengthy incident to which dozens of Lawrence police officers responded.
Police spokeswoman Laura McCabe told the Journal-World on Monday that officers were called on Wednesday to the 3500 block of Prairie Clover Court about a person armed with a shotgun who was potentially involved in a crime.
Officers heard shots fired at some point and evacuated some ...
A 45-year-old massage therapist has been charged with three more sex crimes, in addition to the 11 he was already facing.
The Douglas County District Attorney's Office on Monday filed a second amended complaint charging Aaron P. Borger, who worked at Baldwin City's Om Grown Yoga & Wellness Collective, with one additional count of rape and two additional counts of sexual battery. The new charges involve ...
A Douglas County judge has completely sealed, rather than redact, the arrest affidavit of a man accused of raping a client at a Lawrence massage business, meaning that the public can have no information about why police believed they had probable cause to arrest the man.
Joshua Salazar, a 32-year-old massage therapist, was charged earlier this summer with raping a 19-year-old woman at Lawrence Thai Massage, 951 ...
