When confronted with accusations against him, a 36-year-old Lawrence man told police that he raped and sexually abused a 13-year-old girl earlier this year, according to a recently released affidavit in the case. The man, Steven Earl Snow, has been charged with two counts of child rape, an ...
Don't be alarmed if you see emergency responders and a lot of other people standing outside of City Hall on Tuesday — it's only a drill. City Hall, 6 E. Sixth St., will be holding its evacuation drill at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, the city announced in a news release. People downtown at that time ...
An attorney from Douglas County's Public Defender Office was sworn in as a pro tem judge on Monday in Douglas County District Court. Gary West will fill the pro tem vacancy that was created when Blake Glover was appointed by Gov. Laura Kelly to be a district judge. Glover was elevated to that ...
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 ...