Updated at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 17
A defendant who was convicted of murdering a man in front of the Lawrence Public Library in 2024 has been ordered to serve more than 51 years in prison.
Judge Stacey Donovan on Wednesday handed down the 620-month term requested by the state and denied the defense's motion for a downward departure in Nicholas Laron Beaver's sentence.
A Douglas County jury in July found ...
A Douglas County jury on Wednesday found a man not guilty in a domestic battery case.
The acquittal was the second for the Douglas County District Attorney's Office in a single day — a separate jury on Wednesday acquitted a teen of aggravated assault with a handgun — and at least the seventh acquittal in recent months.
A jury of eight women and four men found Joshua Clary, 41, not guilty of one count of ...
An arrest affidavit for a former award-winning paraprofessional in the Lawrence school district alleges that the para inappropriately touched a middle school boy, asked him to undress and gave him dozens of late-night car rides.
Caleb Zachary Rahmeier, the former para who was honored in December 2023 with the Lawrence Schools Foundation’s “Dedication to Education” award, is facing a felony count of ...
A defendant was found guilty Friday of felony battery against a county law enforcement officer.
The defendant, Dustin Parrish, pleaded no contest to the offense as part of a plea deal with the Douglas County District Attorney's Office, which dropped three other felony counts as part of the agreement, including fleeing or attempting to elude a law enforcement officer, criminal damage to the officer's patrol car ...
A woman who was critically injured and whose dog was killed by a hit-and-run driver last year told a Douglas County judge on Friday that she hoped the driver would be treated with compassion as she completes her court-ordered probation.
The woman said that the driver, 37-year-old Lasean Dixon, wasn't in "a state of mind" at the time of the accident to take responsibility for what she had done the morning of ...
In a courtroom hallway Friday, the brother of a slain man tightly embraced the sister of the man's killer — in acknowledgement of the loss both families have suffered.
The emotional gesture — rare in criminal cases — followed the sentencing hearing of 58-year-old Robert Earl Davis, who was ordered to serve nearly 13 years in prison for fatally stabbing Daniel Evan Brooks, 66, of Lawrence, on Aug. 18, ...
