A 40-year-old man who was welcomed into Douglas County's new Veterans Treatment Court less than two weeks ago was charged on Monday with three new offenses.
Colin Jay Fowler was convicted on Feb. 11 of residential burglary and felony theft, but his sentence was held in abeyance pursuant to his participation in Veterans Treatment Court — a specialty court that offers second chances to veterans in the criminal ...
A Douglas County judge on Friday ordered a 19-year-old man to stand trial for aggravated indecent liberties with a child and other offenses after he allegedly invaded a home naked in the middle of the night, terrifying a Lawrence family.
Judge Sally Pokorny heard evidence in defendant Jacob Gilbert's case earlier this month but delayed making a probable cause decision on the most serious charge, aggravated ...
If you thought we lived in the Information Age with 24/7 news, the internet, social media and AI, consider the fact that in the 19th century every city of any size had a dozen or more newspapers with multiple daily editions, and people routinely wrote (and retained) loads of letters in addition to keeping diaries.
It’s a fact that has kept best-selling author Candice Millard returning again and again to ...
A Lawrence boy is scheduled to stand trial in late summer for alleged sex crimes against a 5-year-old girl.
Douglas County Judge Stacey Donovan on Thursday set an Aug. 3 trial date for the boy, who was 14 at the time of the alleged offenses on Nov. 17, 2024. The boy faces one count of rape and one count of aggravated criminal sodomy.
The young girl reported the incidents to her family, who alerted law ...
A 21-year-old Eudora man who is still on parole for a 2023 Lawrence shooting — one that, according to a legal fiction, didn't involve a gun — is back in the Douglas County Jail this week facing charges of additional violent crimes.
Evan Gauge Heffner was charged Tuesday with three felonies, aggravated battery, aggravated domestic battery and criminal threat; and two misdemeanors, criminal restraint and ...
A felon who was facing 13 years in prison for aggravated burglary instead got probation Friday after a Douglas County judge found that he had made a "180-degree change" and that substantial and compelling reasons existed to depart from state sentencing guidelines.
As Judge Stacey Donovan spoke about the dramatic improvements Chasmen Edward Foster had made and also about the seriousness of the crime he had ...
