A 30-year-old Lawrence man was found guilty Wednesday in Douglas County District Court after he pleaded no contest to aggravated battery in connection with a stabbing incident two years ago outside a Lawrence restaurant. The defendant, Edgar Oropeza Diaz, was originally charged with aggravated ...
A 74-year-old man accused of numerous sex crimes involving children is now facing charges of intimidating the victims in the case, who are now adults, and attempting to interfere with the judicial process. The new charges were filed Monday by the Douglas County District Attorney's Office in an ...
A Douglas County judge has opted for secrecy in the case of a driver accused of killing a local actor. Without providing any explanation for her ruling, Judge Stacey Donovan issued an order Monday saying that the arrest affidavit for Eliseo Munoz, accused of murder in the death of Louise ...
Story updated at 6 p.m. Friday, March 6: The City of Lawrence employee who fatally shot a 28-year-old man two months ago at City Hall will not be charged with a crime, after the DA's office found that he acted in self-defense and defense of others. Douglas County District Attorney Dakota ...
A 31-year-old man who was accused last summer of damaging cars with a ukulele "used as a weapon" took a plea deal Thursday that resolved four criminal cases against him, and he was ordered to serve a year in the Douglas County Jail. The criminal damage charge against Randy Washee Ahtone Sr., ...
Updated at 12:33 p.m. Thursday, March 5 A man accused of sexually attacking two children decades ago in a Lawrence park is out of custody on a $100,000 bond and has hired a private attorney to represent him, according to newly released information in the case. David James Zimbrick, 58, was ...