Updated at 4 p.m. Friday, Nov. 7, 2025
A registered sex offender being held on a bond of $1 million is again asking the court to give him an own-recognizance bond or "a bond he can financially afford" — this time so that he can get treatment from his primary care physician and "relieve the Douglas County Jail of that burden."
The defendant, Kenneth John McClelland, 30, of Oskaloosa, stated in a motion to the ...
A man who was acquitted of two sex crimes in September but convicted of furnishing alcohol to a teen girl and unlawfully hosting minors consuming alcohol was sentenced on Wednesday to six months in jail, which was suspended to probation.
The defendant, Wyatt Farrow, who was 19 at the time of the February 2022 incident, had faced two felony counts of aggravated criminal sodomy, two counts of furnishing alcohol ...
Updated at 5:35 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 5
Douglas County jurors on Wednesday found a 33-year-old Lawrence man guilty of rape and aggravated criminal sodomy — in a case where they had to determine whether the woman’s silent conduct amounted to consent and whether she had been overcome by fear.
A jury took about four hours to determine that Miquel Brown was guilty of the two felonies stemming from an Oct. 27, ...
The Douglas County District Attorney's Office is asking a jury to convict a man of rape and criminal sodomy in a case where the alleged victim says she never said no, never told the man to stop, never was threatened, never called out to a person in the next room, never said anything at all and never tried to leave.
The 19-year-old woman testified on Tuesday that she simply lay still in the dark — in a kind of ...
A man who fatally stabbed a 66-year-old Lawrence resident and seriously injured his dog outside a grocery store was convicted Friday of voluntary manslaughter and cruelty to animals.
Robert Earl Davis, 58, was originally charged with first-degree murder in the Aug. 18, 2021, death of Daniel Evan Brooks outside the Dillons grocery store at 1015 W. 23rd St., where police said they found him holding a knife. But ...
A Douglas County judge has entirely sealed the arrest affidavit of a repeat felon who took a plea deal last month and was convicted in a liquor store assault.
The plea deal itself was sealed on Oct. 15, and two weeks later Judge Stacey Donovan also agreed, at the request of the parties, to keep the arrest affidavit of William Pope from being seen by the public. Donovan had the option to redact sensitive parts ...
