A Lawrence man on Wednesday was ordered to stand trial on charges that he committed sex crimes against a 6-year-old girl.
The defendant, Joseph A. Long, 42, is facing one count of aggravated indecent liberties with a child and one count of aggravated criminal sodomy. Both charges are off-grid felonies that could result in a life sentence if he is convicted.
Judge Stacey Donovan found probable cause to bind ...
A Lawrence man on Wednesday was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the fentanyl overdose death of a 32-year-old father of two.
The defendant, Robert Leeroy Hall, 35, pleaded guilty to the felonies of involuntary manslaughter and unlawful distribution of fentanyl as part of a plea agreement with the state, which had originally charged him with one felony count of distribution of a controlled substance ...
Douglas County prosecutors on Tuesday failed to convince a jury that a Lawrence man attempted to murder his pregnant wife during an argument in July.
Prosecutors also failed to prove that Dustin Ian Lane, 39, committed the crimes of attempted voluntary manslaughter, aggravated intimidation of a victim, intimidation of a victim and criminal restraint.
After deliberating for about two and a half hours Tuesday ...
Dakota Loomis, who unseated the incumbent district attorney in August's Democratic primary, handily defeated his Republican opponent Tuesday and will become Douglas County’s next DA in January.
After his victory became apparent early in the evening — with 86% of precincts reporting he was leading by 31 percentage points — he told the Journal-World that "the real work begins now."
"I think our county, our ...
A Douglas County jury on Monday heard a frantic 911 call from a woman who said her husband was trying to kill her, but when the woman herself took the stand, jurors heard an entirely different story: The couple simply had a heated argument, the woman testified, and she was "not really sure" how she had acquired injuries that police later documented as being consistent with strangulation.
She was too ...
A Douglas County jury took less than 40 minutes Tuesday to acquit a man of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon — in a case where the state said the defendant pulled a menacing knife but the defendant said it was simply a flashlight.
The defendant, Anthony D. Davis, was accused of pointing a 7- to 8-inch knife at a Dillons employee on Nov. 2, 2023, after the employee confronted him about some beer that he ...
