A 35-year-old New York man exchanged thousands of lewd messages, including sexually graphic photos, videos and phone calls, with a Lawrence 14-year-old, and made plans to travel here for the purposes of statutorily raping her, according to allegations in his arrest affidavit, which was released Monday morning.
The Douglas County District Attorney's Office and defense attorney Hatem Chahine both had asked Judge ...
The Lawrence school district is claiming that it is not vicariously liable for the alleged sexual battery of a 6-year-old student in February by a speech pathologist at her elementary school, and is asking the Douglas County District Court to throw out that portion of a lawsuit.
The lawsuit was filed against the school district in March on behalf of a student who alleged that she was sexually abused by Mark ...
Updated at 10:32 p.m. Thursday, May 1
A Douglas County defense attorney is asking a judge to keep from public view a document detailing the arrest of an accused sex offender, asserting that “the public will be just fine if the affidavit is sealed.”
The attorney, Hatem Chahine, represents Kyle Elder, a 35-year-old man from New York who is facing 11 felony counts of soliciting and sexually exploiting a ...
A man was arrested early Wednesday morning for allegedly exposing himself and urinating as police were talking to him about a reported fight in a bar's parking lot.
He was one of three men arrested in the past 24 hours arrested on suspicion of indecent exposure or lewd conduct.
Lawrence police officers were called just before 2 a.m. to the West Coast Saloon, 2222 Iowa St., for a report of a fight involving ...
The Douglas County District Attorney's Office is requesting that the probable cause affidavit of a New York-registered violent sex offender accused of multiple child sex crimes in Douglas County be kept under wraps.
Senior Assistant District Attorney Ricardo Leal has asked a judge to seal the document that details the circumstances around the arrest of Kyle Elder, 35, who stands accused of 10 counts of sexual ...
When Piet Knetsch agreed to direct “Clue” for Theatre Lawrence he was somewhat clueless about the franchise’s large following.
But not for long.
“We had the most unbelievable audition that we’ve ever had,” he said. “More than 60 people auditioned for this play. I’ve never had that many people audition.”
Knetsch attributes the turnout to the apparent popularity of the 1985 film “Clue” — ...
