Updated at 11:27 a.m. Friday, Oct. 25
A woman was arrested Thursday evening in East Lawrence on suspicion of beating another woman with a baseball bat.
Lawrence police were called shortly after 7 p.m. to the 800 block of Delaware Street, where three unhoused women had apparently set up a camp in the nearby woods, according to LPD spokeswoman Laura McCabe.
"From what we gathered initially, all were together ...
A Lawrence man was sentenced Friday to a year of probation for threatening to harm a woman if she reported him for alleged abuse.
The sentence for Servando Martinez-Vazquez, 24, capped a yearslong case that included a jury trial in September at which he was acquitted of aggravated domestic battery by choking and misdemeanor domestic battery but convicted of felony criminal threat.
Judge Stacey Donovan ...
A woman who formerly lived in Lawrence is accusing a man she met through a dating app of secretly filming their sexual activity and later sending the footage anonymously to her boyfriend.
The man, Garrett Christopher Lynch, of Kansas City, Missouri, is now facing a felony count of breach of privacy in Douglas County District Court.
According to the affidavit in support of Lynch’s arrest, the woman, who now ...
Updated at 11:08 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 24
A man who drunkenly drove his truck through the front of a Eudora pizza restaurant, severely injuring two teenagers and causing extensive damage to the building, was sentenced to probation Wednesday in Douglas County District Court — but not before Judge Stacey Donovan heard from supporters of the victims and supporters of the defendant on how the crash had turned ...
A Douglas County judge on Wednesday sentenced a 38-year-old Lawrence man to more than five years in prison for electronic solicitation of a child.
Judge Amy Hanley announced the 66-month prison term after hearing from the mother of an 11-year-old victim, who said that the defendant, John Grant Redding, “stole my son’s innocence” and “took his childhood” after the two encountered each other online. At ...
A Lawrence teen accused of shooting another teen to death in June pleaded not guilty Wednesday to first-degree murder, and the court scheduled his trial to begin on Jan. 27.
The defendant, Cir Allen Keith Glover, 19, is accused of killing Isaiah Neal, 17, on June 13 outside of Neal's home, as the Journal-World reported. The prosecution has argued that Neal was shot in the back seven times with his own handgun ...
