A man accused of murder in the highway death of a local actor waived his right to a preliminary hearing in another criminal matter on Tuesday.
Eliseo J. Munoz, 24, was scheduled to have a preliminary hearing in that matter — a case in which he's charged with a third DUI and driving while suspended — and also in the murder case. He waived his right to the hearing in the DUI case, and the hearing in the ...
The other half of a duo who conspired to throw drugs over a state prison wall has now been sentenced to six and a half years in federal prison.
Tommie Baggett, 26, was an inmate at the state prison in Hutchinson when he arranged with another felon — Jermel Fleming, 33, of Lawrence — to have a package of methamphetamine thrown over the wall. While Fleming was outside of the prison, Baggett gave him ...
The cybersecurity incident that struck public computer systems in the City of Eudora and the Douglas County Sheriff's Office was foreign ransomware that first hit the Eudora Police Department's system, the city’s recently dismissed IT administrator said.
The attack — by a hacking group out of Eastern Europe or Russia — encrypted all of the police department's files with ransomware, meaning the files were ...
A Baldwin City man on Monday was sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison for opening fire outside a bar and the town's public library nearly four years ago.
"I feel very bad about all this, and I'm sorry that any of it happened," Junah Sisney told Judge Stacey Donovan at his sentencing in Douglas County District Court.
Sisney, 23, was convicted in July after pleading guilty to one count of attempted ...
A habitual DUI offender who's accused in the hit-and-run death of a KU student last November was ordered on Monday to stand trial in a separate DUI incident that allegedly occurred just nine weeks before the student's death.
If convicted, the DUI would be the fourth or more for William Ray Klingler. Douglas County Deputy District Attorney David Melton provided Judge Stacey Donovan with three journal entries ...
A man who's been charged with two counts of child rape made his first appearance in court Friday, and a Douglas County judge set his bond at $1 million.
The defendant, Steven Snow, was arrested Thursday morning, as Lawrence police announced in a news release later that day.
Snow, 36, is accused of raping a child under the age of 14. The two offense dates are listed in the criminal complaint as July 8 and Aug. ...
