The jail booking log and other features of the Douglas County sheriff's website have been offline for days, and the sheriff's office on Friday acknowledged that it had identified "suspicious activity on certain computer systems" that had caused issues with its system.
The office had previously said only that "technical issues" were causing the disruption and declined to confirm or deny whether a hacking ...
A man who was apprehended in connection with a KU student's death last year has been charged with multiple misdemeanors that he allegedly committed two days after the student's death when he was still at large.
The more recent charges were filed earlier this summer and are in addition to the charges he was already facing connected to the hit-and-run fatality of Elsa McGrain, a 20-year-old KU student from ...
Updated at 12:40 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 13
Victims' relatives and law enforcement officials hugged one another Thursday after a Douglas County judge sentenced a Lawrence man to consecutive life terms for murdering two men and attempting to murder several more, including police officers who were trying to apprehend him after his violent crime spree four years ago.
The murderer, 55-year-old Rodney Marshall, will ...
A defendant accused of killing a man and seriously injuring the man’s child in a head-on collision last year pleaded guilty Thursday in Douglas County District Court to reckless second-degree murder and aggravated battery while driving under the influence.
The defendant, Zachary Odom, 30, of Tecumseh, killed Leonard “Skip” Schupp, 51, of Oskaloosa, while driving under the influence on July 18, 2025, on ...
A 20-year-old Lawrence man pleaded not guilty on Thursday in a case in which he is accused of shooting two people earlier this year and endangering others.
The man, Jaystyn James Curtiss, is now scheduled to be tried on Nov. 30.
In an amended complaint filed June 29, the Douglas County District Attorney's Office charged him with two counts of attempted first-degree murder, two counts of aggravated battery, one ...
A man accused of murdering a 35-year-old woman last summer in Lawrence has been declared incompetent to stand trial.
Douglas County District Court records indicate that Aaron Blake Wright, 64, was found unfit for trial earlier this month and was ordered by Judge Amy Hanley to undergo treatment under the supervision of Larned State Hospital.
Generally, a person is deemed incompetent to stand trial when he is ...
