A 31-year-old man who was accused last summer of damaging cars with a ukulele "used as a weapon" took a plea deal Thursday that resolved four criminal cases against him, and he was ordered to serve a year in the Douglas County Jail.
The criminal damage charge against Randy Washee Ahtone Sr., which had already been reduced from two felonies to a misdemeanor, was dismissed altogether after he agreed to plead ...
A retired Lawrence police officer who was accused of hitting a man while off duty at a kids’ basketball game last winter in Topeka has pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and will be on supervised probation for a year.
According to a recently filed journal entry in the Shawnee County case, former Lt. Myrone Grady has been found guilty of the Class C misdemeanor of disorderly conduct after having originally ...
A store employee was rude to her, so she pulled a knife on him. That's the state's version of what happened in the early-morning hours last November at a Lawrence convenience store. The defendant's version is that she was innocently acting in self-defense.
A Douglas County judge on Monday will decide whether the woman, Jazmine Porchia, should be immune from prosecution based on her claim of self-defense or ...
A 31-year-old man was convicted Tuesday of two felonies in connection with an incident last fall in which Lawrence police said several people were held at gunpoint for hours after the defendant claimed money had been stolen from him at an apartment on Michigan Street.
The defendant, Garnel Moore Williams, is now facing more than a decade in prison when he is sentenced on May 28.
Moore Williams was originally ...
Updated at 6:21 p.m. Tuesday, March 3
The Kansas State Board of Healing Arts has revoked the license of an athletic trainer after he admitted accessing confidential medical records of women who had undergone breast augmentations.
Jeremy A. Goates admitted accessing hundreds of files, many of which had sensitive images in them, according to a consent order revoking his license, including before and after ...
A trial for a Lawrence activist accused of interfering in 2023 with law enforcement is now set to take place in August after a judge reluctantly allowed another in a long line of continuances; however, there's a chance the case could be dismissed altogether in the meantime.
That's because the attorney for defendant Phillip Michael Eravi filed a motion to dismiss the case as a sanction on the state for providing ...
