Kelsi Billings never imagined seeing what she saw Saturday: her son, who had been mercilessly bullied in elementary school, being crowned king of Winter Court at Free State High School.
“It was literally the best night of my life,” she said of Draivun Collins’ night of honor, which she captured on video and rewatches with happy tears.
Hearing the students chant Draivun’s name with affection and ...
A federal lawsuit filed Monday claims that officials in Douglas County "schemed" and conspired to frame a woman for murdering a baby at a Eudora day care by fabricating a fictional cause of death, withholding evidence and propagating false narratives of guilt for years.
The lawsuit, filed by Carrody Buchhorn and her family, specifically targets Douglas County’s former coroner, Dr. Erik Mitchell; Douglas ...
People are attracted to Christmas lights like moths to a flame, so it’s not hugely surprising to Forestry Supervisor Levi Parkin that the new light tunnel in Lawrence’s South Park has proved such a hit. It is hugely gratifying, though.
“It seems to be popular,” he said Tuesday afternoon — an accurate assessment, given that shortly after sundown Tuesday, an assortment of families, cyclists, runners ...
A convicted killer who later threatened corrections officers at the Douglas County Jail will serve an additional half year for the offense, a judge ruled Tuesday.
Maliqe Crenshaw, 24, was sentenced by Judge Stacey Donovan to six months in prison for a criminal threat he made in October. That term will run consecutively to the 31 months he is serving for fatally shooting Cameron Renner, 20, of Topeka, on June ...
A Lawrence man was ordered to stand trial Monday after witnesses testified that he beat them bloody with a pistol and fired the gun in a moving car in which a 5-year-old was a passenger.
A witness told the court that a group of four people — herself; her male friend; her friend’s 5-year-old; and the defendant, Elijah Joseph Garcia — were returning to Lawrence late at night from an Oktoberfest event in ...
A man was convicted Friday of voluntary manslaughter in the drug death of a 31-year-old Lawrence father.
The defendant, Kristopher Koby Alaniz, 35, pleaded guilty in Douglas County District Court to that charge and to a felony paraphernalia charge as part of a plea deal with the District Attorney’s Office in which multiple other felony charges were dropped. He had originally been charged with distribution of ...
