A 55-year-old man was sentenced Tuesday to 16 months in prison for violently threatening a downtown Lawrence restaurant worker.
Judge Amy Hanley pronounced the sentence after hearing a brief statement from the victim delivered by prosecutor Eve Kemple. The incident was "very scary and frightening for him," Kemple said, and he expressed the desire for Mahan to make life changes so that he wouldn't continue in ...
When the Iranian government shut down the Internet last month, dozens of Iranian students at the University of Kansas lost their means of connecting with family and friends. They attended classes and lived their "Lawrence lives," worried sick about loved ones who might be affected by the regime's brutal crackdown on civil-rights protesters.
"It's a very heavy time when your mind, your heart, is in another part ...
A Douglas County judge on Monday ordered a Lawrence man to stand trial on multiple felonies after a pregnant woman testified that he choked her and threatened to kill her and her baby.
The defendant, Patrick Gage Foster, 26, was originally charged with one count of aggravated domestic battery and one count of felony criminal threat for his alleged actions on Nov. 13, 2025, but after hearing the woman testify ...
A 44-year-old man was sentenced Monday to three years in prison after pleading guilty to four of the 18 crimes he had originally been charged with.
Antonio Paul Jaimez entered a plea deal with the Douglas County District Attorney's Office that made most of his charges go away and re-characterized others like a Level 2 methamphetamine charge into a less serious Level 4 marijuana charge. The deal also dropped a ...
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 ...
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 ...
