A city bus driver on Thursday told a judge how she had been traumatized by the forceful takeover of her bus by a thief last summer.
"Not only my life changed but my whole family's," she said at the sentencing hearing for Sherika Carey.
The driver, who was unable to work for a period, is now back driving, but she fights anxiety and depression, she said, and can only drive routes where she knows the regular ...
A repeat felon sighed with relief and raised his shackled hands in prayerful gratitude Tuesday as a Douglas County judge sentenced him to probation, despite his having the worst criminal history score possible under the Kansas Sentencing Guidelines.
Judge Stacey Donovan told defendant Sean Steven Craig, "You will be released today," after she handed down his sentence for felony criminal threat. She told Craig ...
A former award-winning paraprofessional in the Lawrence school district pleaded not guilty Tuesday to multiple child sex crimes.
Caleb Rahmeier, in a third amended complaint filed in August, has been charged with aggravated indecent liberties with a child, sexual exploitation of a child, and attempted sexual exploitation of a child, all felonies, as well as contributing to a child's misconduct or deprivation, ...
Updated at 5:15 p.m. Monday, Oct. 12
A man who was caught stealing tens of thousands of dollars from a Lawrence grocery store in May will have his felony case dismissed if he pays back $25,000 over three years and does 20 hours of community service, among other conditions of his diversion agreement with the Douglas County District Attorney's Office.
A diversion agreement is an alternative to a traditional ...
Stephanie Byers doesn’t pee standing up.
Not that it’s anyone’s business, but if that is alleged about her in a court of law — as a witness alleged last week in Douglas County — she’s going to correct the record.
And while she’s at it, Byers — Kansas’ first openly transgender lawmaker — is going to say this: She is not a threat to any woman in any public restroom anywhere.
“That is ...
When confronted with accusations against him, a 36-year-old Lawrence man told police that he raped and sexually abused a 13-year-old girl earlier this year, according to a recently released affidavit in the case.
The man, Steven Earl Snow, has been charged with two counts of child rape, an off-grid felony punishable by life in prison if he is convicted. Lawrence police announced Snow's arrest in a Sept. 10 news ...
