A woman who was accused of stealing a City of Lawrence bus last summer and driving it across town has pleaded no contest to lesser charges and is scheduled to be sentenced next month. The woman, Sherika Carey, was originally charged with robbery, fleeing or attempting to elude police and unlawful request for emergency service assistance for an incident on Sept. 19, 2025, in which she reportedly pried open a bus ...
A Lawrence teen who was seriously injured in a fatal car accident last year in Leavenworth County was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of involuntary manslaughter. Kaiden Jordan Jimenez was taken into custody in Overland Park on a felony warrant out of Leavenworth County, though it wasn't immediately clear if the warrant pertained to the 2025 wreck or to some other matter. As the Journal-World reported, Jimenez ...
Government officials continue to say very little about a cybersecurity issue that has significantly affected taxpayer-funded computer systems, including whether incidents in the City of Eudora and the Douglas County Sheriff's Office are related and whether the incidents have exposed the personal financial and other private data of residents. After initially saying nothing apart from noting “technical issues" ...
A case against a criminal defendant was dismissed on Wednesday after a Douglas County judge found that Lawrence police officers had acted unlawfully. Judge Stacey Donovan on Aug. 28 granted a motion to suppress evidence in the case of Elijah Joseph Garcia, who was facing felony charges of aggravated battery and possession of cocaine. Donovan determined that police conduct related to Garcia's arrest was ...
Updated at 2:44 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2026 A man who was arrested in a Sunday homicide in downtown Lawrence has not been charged in the incident, but police say "he remains the suspect." Keisonn Smith, 25, of Topeka, was arrested Sunday after the fatal stabbing of 20-year-old McMillin Tutu, of Kansas City, Missouri. Lawrence police had said that evidence pointed to Smith as the suspect, and he was arrested ...
Updated at 3:57 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 2 Anyone who has visited the new Judicial and Law Enforcement Center more than once has likely heard about — or personally experienced — frustrations with the lone elevator available to the public. The county's courtrooms are located in what's called the "tower," the brand new addition to the south of the JLEC, which is undergoing a nearly $60 million overhaul. The ...