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 ...
A 55-year-old man was convicted Thursday of felony criminal threat in a case where he was initially charged with attempting to rob a Lawrence restaurant employee last spring.
The threat conviction followed a no contest plea by Maurice Anthony Mahan, who will be sentenced on Feb. 24.
As the Journal-World reported, the crime occurred the night of May 25, 2025, outside the Basil Leaf Cafe, 801 Massachusetts St. ...
A mother who was accused in 2019 of leaving two toddlers in a freezing car as she drank at a local bar appeared Thursday in Douglas County District Court for a preliminary hearing in a 2024 child abuse case.
The hearing was continued, however, at the mutual request of defense attorney Gary West and prosecutor Devin Canfield. West told Judge Sally Pokorny that the extra time would allow "potential for resolution ...
Updated at 4:21 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 12
The driver involved in a crash four months ago that killed a local actor has now been charged with second-degree murder and several other crimes.
Eliseo J. Munoz, 24, was arrested shortly before 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at his Lawrence home on suspicion of DUI-3rd conviction and driving while his license was revoked or suspended — charges that relate to a separate incident ...
A Douglas County judge heard evidence Wednesday in a case where a stranger allegedly got high on hallucinogens, walked into a Lawrence family's home, stripped naked and terrified the occupants in the middle of the night.
But before Judge Sally Pokorny potentially orders the defendant — 19-year-old Jacob Gilbert, of Lawrence — to stand trial, she wants more clarity on whether the most significant allegation ...
