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 ...
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 ...
