Story updated at 6:48 p.m. Monday, June 24:
Douglas County District Attorney Suzanne Valdez’s right-hand man, Deputy District Attorney Joshua Seiden, is no longer employed by her office, and the local sheriff confirmed his deputies saw Seiden on Friday seemingly impersonating a controversial public commenter.
The abrupt departure took many in the legal community by surprise, given the significant role ...
A fight erupted Monday outside the Douglas County Courthouse after the man accused of killing a 17-year-old Lawrence boy made his first court appearance.
Numerous supporters for the deceased, Lawrence resident Isaiah Neal, attended the brief hearing, at which defendant Cir Allen Keith Glover, 18, of Lawrence, appeared via video from the Douglas County Jail.
After the hearing, about eight or 10 people could ...
The last time Theatre Lawrence performed the Broadway classic “Fiddler on the Roof” was nearly 25 years ago, and it has been trying for the past 14 years to do it again — with no success until now.
That’s because getting the rights to a show can be tricky, and the more popular the show the trickier. If a professional company is performing the show anywhere in the area, community theaters are essentially ...
The rape trial for former Illinois star basketball player Terrence Shannon will begin Monday at 9 a.m. sharp, after a Douglas County judge pointedly denied the state’s attempt to continue it.
In her ruling Tuesday, Judge Amy Hanley also raised implicit questions about the District Attorney’s Office’s ability to have qualified attorneys at the ready for contingencies that arise in court schedules.
Part of ...
If your working life has consisted of loafing in the sun with your nose in a book and being admired by nearly everyone who lays eyes on you, can you even imagine what splendor retirement holds?
Dashiell, the longtime bookstore cat at The Raven, is about to find out. In June, he’ll be retiring after a distinguished career in downtown Lawrence, where he has delighted customers for 13 years and dramatically ...
The Lawrence school board on Tuesday approved the district’s approximately $17 million capital improvement plan for 2024-25 by a vote of 7-0, and also unanimously approved a five-year purchase agreement for a new curriculum resource for teaching elementary math.
The capital improvement plan, to be funded principally out of the district’s Capital Outlay Fund, is simply an overview of projects — basically a ...
