The cybersecurity incident that struck public computer systems in the City of Eudora and the Douglas County Sheriff's Office was foreign ransomware that first hit the Eudora Police Department's system, the city’s recently dismissed IT administrator said.
The attack — by a hacking group out of Eastern Europe or Russia — encrypted all of the police department's files with ransomware, meaning the files were ...
A Baldwin City man on Monday was sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison for opening fire outside a bar and the town's public library nearly four years ago.
"I feel very bad about all this, and I'm sorry that any of it happened," Junah Sisney told Judge Stacey Donovan at his sentencing in Douglas County District Court.
Sisney, 23, was convicted in July after pleading guilty to one count of attempted ...
A habitual DUI offender who's accused in the hit-and-run death of a KU student last November was ordered on Monday to stand trial in a separate DUI incident that allegedly occurred just nine weeks before the student's death.
If convicted, the DUI would be the fourth or more for William Ray Klingler. Douglas County Deputy District Attorney David Melton provided Judge Stacey Donovan with three journal entries ...
A man who's been charged with two counts of child rape made his first appearance in court Friday, and a Douglas County judge set his bond at $1 million.
The defendant, Steven Snow, was arrested Thursday morning, as Lawrence police announced in a news release later that day.
Snow, 36, is accused of raping a child under the age of 14. The two offense dates are listed in the criminal complaint as July 8 and Aug. ...
Additional charges were added Thursday to a criminal complaint against a repeat felon accused of arson and other crimes.
The arson case arose just a few weeks after Steven Drake Jr. had been granted extraordinary leniency at his sentencing for other crimes.
Drake, who has an extensive criminal history, is now facing two counts of violating a protective order in connection with the arson case that was filed in ...
A man who seriously injured a motorcyclist while driving drunk two years ago was convicted of a felony Thursday in Douglas County District Court and will have to pay the victim thousands of dollars for medical expenses.
George Donner Jr. was originally charged with aggravated battery while driving under the influence, but he pleaded no contest to attempted aggravated battery, a lower-level felony.
Because the ...
