Updated at 6:15 p.m. Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Lawrence’s “most infamous” commenter has failed to demonstrate that the City Commission’s rules about comments at public meetings are unconstitutionally vague or that the city engaged in unlawful viewpoint and content discrimination against him.
Federal Judge Julie Robinson in an order this week, using Justin Spiehs’ self-identification as “the most ...
Gayla Kelly thinks her son came to Lawrence in his final days because it was a place where he had been happy.
“He said once that Lawrence was where he began his adult life” — he excitedly came to KU in 2012 to study music education — “so I believe that a part of him felt this was the right place to end his life,” she said.
But she can’t be sure — even as she “relives and rethinks every action ...
A Lawrence man who was accused of violently raping a KU student in 2018, but who pleaded the charge down to aggravated battery after the jury hung in the rape trial, was sentenced to probation Friday in Douglas County District Court.
At the sentencing of Kalim Dowdell, 27, Judge Stacey Donovan heard from the victim and the victim’s mother about how the actions of Dowdell — including not only the alleged ...
Just days after a defendant was deemed competent to stand trial in one courtroom he was ejected from another courtroom for a profanity-laced outburst against the court and his own attorney.
The defendant, John Timothy Price, was in the courtroom of Judge Stacey Donovan with his attorney, Razmi Tahirkheli, for a pretrial conference Friday on one of his battery on a law enforcement officer cases when he became ...
Maci Perrins, the Langston Hughes Elementary student and two-time winner of the Douglas County Spelling Bee, placed second at the Sunflower State Spelling Bee over the weekend and was recognized by the Lawrence school board at its Monday meeting.
Maci, a fifth-grader, lost the state bee Saturday in Salina to Carey Chesire of Andover Middle School, who correctly spelled "ahuehuete," which is a tree known as the ...
A Lawrence father will spend four and a half years in prison for his role in the fentanyl death of another Lawrence father in 2021.
Douglas County Judge Stacey Donovan on Monday sentenced Randell Mark Smith, 32, after he pleaded no contest in February to one count of involuntary manslaughter and one count of distributing fentanyl.
Smith, who had been out on bond and entered the courtroom holding a child, was ...
