The two men competing to be the next district attorney for Douglas County have both been highly critical of the outgoing one-term DA, citing high turnover in the office, poor outcomes in the courtroom and damaged relationships with police and judges, among other issues. Each candidate has downplayed the role of partisan politics in his own campaign and has characterized his run as an attempt — a calling, ...
A 22-year-old Eudora man on Tuesday was ordered to stand trial on four counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after witnesses testified that he pulled a gun on them out of the blue as they sat in a car in downtown Lawrence.
The four witnesses, three of them minors from Franklin County, told the court that on May 4, late at night, they were sitting in a car at East Eighth and Massachusetts streets ...
A woman accused in a March hit-and-run that killed a dog and critically injured its owner has applied for a diversion in the case.
Lasean Dixon, of Lawrence, made her first court appearance in September on a felony charge of leaving the scene of an injury accident, and she appeared again on Wednesday, when her attorney, Jessica Glendening, told the court that her client had filed a diversion application with ...
A Lawrence man who has racked up 37 criminal convictions in the past 30 years was sentenced on Tuesday to 17 years in prison for invading a Lawrence woman’s home at gunpoint and robbing her.
Douglas County District Court Judge Stacey Donovan handed down the sentence to Chester Wendell Brockman, 52, after finding no substantial or compelling reasons for a lighter term and citing the “sheer quantity of ...
A Douglas County judge, after a two-day bench trial, on Tuesday found a Lawrence man guilty of multiple sex crimes against children in a long-running case in which the man had at one point described himself to police as a “monster” but then opted to spend years fighting the charges.
Judge Sally Pokorny found Dustyn Polk, 49, guilty of one count of rape, one count of aggravated indecent liberties with a ...
Updated at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 7
Eleven former residents of a Lawrence homeless camp took the witness stand Monday to testify about events surrounding the homicide of a fellow camper in February, painting a lurid picture of heavy drug use and interpersonal strife but also of a close-knit community committed to helping one another survive.
The testimony came at the preliminary hearing for Julius Beasley, who ...
