A young man was summoned to appear on Friday in Douglas County District Court to face charges that he sold wristbands to underage people so that they could drink alcohol in January, when two people were shot at The Hawk bar, one fatally.
The young man, Hunter J. Noravong, is listed in court records as having been born in 2006 and as residing in Shawnee Mission. According to his LinkedIn page, he's a computer ...
Updated at 6:05 p.m. Thursday, July 9, 2026
They thought Kenneth Soap was a close friend, a good guy.
But "he had everyone fooled," a 36-year-old woman told Judge Amy Hanley on Thursday.
He wasn't a good guy at all. He was a serial rapist who took pleasure in violating women while they were unconscious, grotesquely filming the assaults and filing the videos in folders bearing their names.
The woman said she ...
Every time someone is arrested on a municipal offense and stays in the Douglas County Jail for more than four hours, the Lawrence Police Department is billed $287 a day. In 2027 that bill will be $301 a day.
"The impact on our budget has been significant," Lawrence Police Chief Rich Lockhart told the Journal-World.
That cost, which has increased dramatically over the past several years, has perplexed Lockhart ...
Updated at 5:48 p.m. July 6, 2026
A Douglas County judge has ruled that a woman accused of murdering a 9-month-old baby at a Eudora daycare 10 years ago was wrongfully convicted, and he has ordered that she be given a certificate of innocence, in addition to a lump sum payment of $368,000 and attorney fees.
The woman, Carrody Buchhorn, and her legal team have been in a yearslong fight to clear her name in the ...
An accused child molester who was scheduled for a plea hearing Wednesday in Douglas County District Court died by suicide Tuesday, according to a prosecutor, who told the court that the man's death had deprived the victim and the community of justice.
The defendant, 58-year-old Kurt Pisocki, of Lawrence, was facing multiple off-grid felonies that could have meant life in prison if he were convicted of any ...
Updated at 3:45 p.m. Tuesday, June 30, 2026
A repeat felon who was granted probation just last month after his attorney assured a judge that he was a "new man" was arrested Monday afternoon on suspicion of arson and two other felonies.
The May sentence of probation was extraordinary in that the sentencing judge said she couldn't recall ever granting probation in such a case before.
Steven Carl Drake, 51, of ...
