A man with a lengthy criminal record who is known for leading law enforcement on numerous car chases was convicted Wednesday in Douglas County District Court of attempted aggravated battery on a law enforcement officer, fleeing and eluding police and criminal damage to property for three incidents that happened in 2022 and 2024.
The convictions followed a deal in which Steven Carl Drake II, 50, pleaded no ...
A Douglas County woman with two previous domestic battery convictions has been ordered to stand trial for a third violent incident.
In the most recent case, Shaleah N. Kauffman is facing felony domestic battery and aggravated battery charges after a man testified on Tuesday that Kauffman drunkenly attacked him two separate times in the fall of 2023.
The man testified that the first attack occurred early in ...
A Lawrence man pleaded not guilty Friday in Douglas County District Court to charges that he molested two girls eight years ago during sleepovers at his home.
The teens testified at a preliminary hearing in January about separate incidents that they said occurred at the home of Jordey McTaggart as they spent the night with his children when they were in elementary school.
Judge Sally Pokorny ordered McTaggart ...
A 30-year-old Lawrence man was found guilty Wednesday in Douglas County District Court after he pleaded no contest to aggravated battery in connection with a stabbing incident two years ago outside a Lawrence restaurant.
The defendant, Edgar Oropeza Diaz, was originally charged with aggravated battery as a level 4 person felony but pleaded down to a less serious level 7 person felony. He faces between 11 and 34 ...
One can hardly put on a Jazz Age British farce without a Victrola gramophone on set, but good luck finding one.
Theatre Lawrence had no such luck, despite scenic designer Jim Peterson "looking everywhere" for one. But it did have a 3D printer — a 21st century machine that staff could fire up to crank out a machine from 100 years ago.
The faux-Victrola is one of many pieces that — whether specially created ...
A 74-year-old man accused of numerous sex crimes involving children is now facing charges of intimidating the victims in the case, who are now adults, and attempting to interfere with the judicial process.
The new charges were filed Monday by the Douglas County District Attorney's Office in an amended complaint against Mark Duane Strand, a federal convict who is now in the Douglas County Jail on the local ...
