A witness told a Douglas County jury that his simple failure to return a stranger's nod at a gas station led to the stranger angrily pulling a gun on him, but a defense attorney told jurors that the armed man was clearly acting in self-defense and that it was the unarmed man who should be on trial.
Jurors will soon decide which version of events they believe in the case of 50-year-old defendant Jason Keesee, ...
Updated at 5:10 p.m. Monday, Aug. 17, 2026
A dull and dingy wall in downtown Lawrence is now colorful and inviting, thanks to local Girl Scouts who spent a good part of the past year planning and painting a mural at the site.
Troop 2856 gathered Sunday to officially unveil their contribution to Lawrence's cityscape: a large wall painting depicting a number of Kansas animals that are, or could become, ...
Updated at 5:42 p.m. Monday, Aug. 17, 2026
A Douglas County judge on Monday granted a Lawrence transgender woman the temporary restoration of her driver's license after the State of Kansas invalidated it earlier this year under a controversial anti-trans law known as SB 244.
"We're pleased with the judge's ruling," the woman's attorney, David Brown, told the Journal-World, hopeful that the temporary order ...
The multimillion-dollar, 158,000-square-foot addition to Douglas County's Judicial and Law Enforcement Center is coming to life as court offices have steadily migrated from the older part of the building in recent weeks.
People who have courtroom business will notice quite a few changes as they step into the bigger, brighter rooms in what's now known as the "tower" south of, but still connected to, the older ...
A man who was apprehended in connection with a KU student's death last year has been charged with multiple misdemeanors that he allegedly committed two days after the student's death when he was still at large.
The more recent charges were filed earlier this summer and are in addition to the charges he was already facing connected to the hit-and-run fatality of Elsa McGrain, a 20-year-old KU student from ...
The jail booking log and other features of the Douglas County sheriff's website have been offline for days, and the sheriff's office on Friday acknowledged that it had identified "suspicious activity on certain computer systems" that had caused issues with its system.
The office had previously said only that "technical issues" were causing the disruption and declined to confirm or deny whether a hacking ...
