A woman who says she was brutally raped by a stranger more than 17 years ago in Lawrence had likely despaired of ever receiving justice, but she now has hope after never-before-tested evidence in the case was recently examined. The first investigation into the May 6, 2009, incident hit a dead ...
Incarcerated mothers and their children come together in an unsupervised room. There are no guards — just play, and a whole a lot of love. That’s the subject of a new documentary by Steve Lerner, a Lawrence filmmaker and psychologist, that will have its first public screening next ...
A Douglas County jury on Tuesday found a 64-year-old man guilty of lewd and lascivious behavior after several witnesses testified that the man had publicly masturbated at an apartment complex's swimming pool in the presence of a minor. Jay Janicke's attorneys from the Public Defenders Office ...
The state says the defendant was masturbating at a pool in front of a minor, but his attorneys claim he was innocently "adjusting himself." If a Douglas County jury believes prosecutor Adam Carey and the four witnesses he put on the stand Monday, defendant Jay Janicke will be convicted of a ...
A 45-year-old Lenexa man is facing three felony charges after he allegedly burglarized a KU fraternity. Lawrence police arrested Ryan Craig Woods — with the assistance of camera footage — Thursday pursuant to a warrant. The break-in allegedly occurred on Aug. 22. Two charges of aggravated ...
The State of Kansas spent millions of dollars prosecuting an innocent woman and subsequently defending itself against her wrongful conviction lawsuit, and now taxpayers may be on the hook for millions more as a judge decides whether the state also has to pay her attorneys more than $4.5 million ...