A 55-year-old man was sentenced Tuesday to 16 months in prison for violently threatening a downtown Lawrence restaurant worker.
Judge Amy Hanley pronounced the sentence after hearing a brief statement from the victim delivered by prosecutor Eve Kemple. The incident was "very scary and frightening for him," Kemple said, and he expressed the desire for Mahan to make life changes so that he wouldn't continue in ...
A Douglas County judge on Monday ordered a Lawrence man to stand trial on multiple felonies after a pregnant woman testified that he choked her and threatened to kill her and her baby.
The defendant, Patrick Gage Foster, 26, was originally charged with one count of aggravated domestic battery and one count of felony criminal threat for his alleged actions on Nov. 13, 2025, but after hearing the woman testify ...
A 40-year-old man who was welcomed into Douglas County's new Veterans Treatment Court less than two weeks ago was charged on Monday with three new offenses.
Colin Jay Fowler was convicted on Feb. 11 of residential burglary and felony theft, but his sentence was held in abeyance pursuant to his participation in Veterans Treatment Court — a specialty court that offers second chances to veterans in the criminal ...
A 44-year-old man was sentenced Monday to three years in prison after pleading guilty to four of the 18 crimes he had originally been charged with.
Antonio Paul Jaimez entered a plea deal with the Douglas County District Attorney's Office that made most of his charges go away and re-characterized others like a Level 2 methamphetamine charge into a less serious Level 4 marijuana charge. The deal also dropped a ...
A Douglas County judge on Friday ordered a 19-year-old man to stand trial for aggravated indecent liberties with a child and other offenses after he allegedly invaded a home naked in the middle of the night, terrifying a Lawrence family.
Judge Sally Pokorny heard evidence in defendant Jacob Gilbert's case earlier this month but delayed making a probable cause decision on the most serious charge, aggravated ...
If you thought we lived in the Information Age with 24/7 news, the internet, social media and AI, consider the fact that in the 19th century every city of any size had a dozen or more newspapers with multiple daily editions, and people routinely wrote (and retained) loads of letters in addition to keeping diaries.
It’s a fact that has kept best-selling author Candice Millard returning again and again to ...
