An Oskaloosa man who was previously convicted of soliciting sex from a child was charged on Friday with human trafficking and a sex crime against a teenager. The man, Kenneth John McClelland, 30, faces one felony count of aggravated human trafficking and one felony count of aggravated indecent ...
Updated at 2:45 p.m. Friday, May 30 North 1500 Road, which is 15th Street east of Lawrence, reopened Friday afternoon after having been closed that morning due to a gas leak. The Douglas County Sheriff's Office indicated around 9:45 a.m. Friday that a gas company was en route to the location ...
Washington — The Department of Homeland Security is putting more than 500 communities across the country that it labels “sanctuary jurisdictions,” including Lawrence and Douglas County, on notice that the Trump administration views them as obstructing immigration enforcement as it ...
Douglas County commissioners authorized staff on Wednesday to use outside grant funding to continue exploring the idea of a guaranteed income pilot program for low-income single mothers. During their meeting on Wednesday, commissioners approved a subgrant agreement with the International ...
Twenty employees with the City of Lawrence have been accepted for the voluntary early retirement program, which the city began offering as part of an effort to address the city’s budget shortfall. At a City Commission meeting in April, city staff presented a budget that addressed a projected ...
There were no arrests that led to felony charges to report from 5 p.m. Tuesday to 5 p.m. Wednesday. The Journal-World publishes Monday through Friday on LJWorld.com and Tuesday through Saturday in the print edition of the Journal-World a list of individuals who have both been booked into the ...
