A man accused of stealing tens of thousands of dollars from the Dillons grocery that employed him has worked out a diversion agreement with the Douglas County District Attorney's Office, his lawyer told a judge Wednesday.
"We have reached an agreement; it just needs to be typed up," Hatem Chahine, the lawyer for Ethan Waters, told Senior Judge Nancy Parrish. Chahine said that DA Dakota Loomis was "working on ...
Updated at 5:35 p.m. Wednesday, July 22
A 23-year-old man was convicted Wednesday in Douglas County District Court of two attempted murders and aggravated assault for a series of public shootings more than three years ago in downtown Baldwin City.
The defendant, Junah Sisney, was convicted after pleading guilty to one count of attempted first-degree murder, one count of attempted second-degree murder and one ...
A maintenance man for an apartment complex in southwest Lawrence reportedly shot and killed a group of raccoons in the complex's dumpster — in front of children — and now could face charges of animal cruelty and unlawful discharge of a firearm.
The incident occurred Friday at Village at West End, a complex at 4410 Clinton Parkway operated by Midwest Property Management.
Laura McCabe, a spokeswoman for the ...
A former award-winning paraprofessional in the Lawrence school district has been charged with two more sex crimes against children, bringing the number of criminal charges to four.
The Douglas County District Attorney's Office recently charged Caleb Zachary Rahmeier with attempted sexual exploitation of a child, which allegedly occurred between May 21, 2022, and Sept. 3, 2024, and sexual exploitation of a ...
For the second time since he was charged last summer with murder, a defendant has been ordered to undergo a competency evaluation to see if he is fit to stand trial.
Douglas County Judge Amy Hanley has ordered the defendant, Aaron Blake Wright, who is accused in the stabbing death of 35-year-old Jina Reyes-Woehler, to undergo a competency evaluation by Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center.
Generally, a ...
A Douglas County judge has completely sealed, rather than redact, the arrest affidavit of a man accused of raping a client at a Lawrence massage business, meaning that the public can have no information about why police believed they had probable cause to arrest the man.
Joshua Salazar, a 32-year-old massage therapist, was charged earlier this summer with raping a 19-year-old woman at Lawrence Thai Massage, 951 ...
