The illicit drug K2 was mailed to the Douglas County Jail, and inmates there used lithium batteries from computer tablets to light the substance, according to allegations in a recently released arrest affidavit. Two inmates, Caiden Clem, 19, and Temujin Jernigan, 24, have been charged with the ...
The state sought a four-year prison term for a probation violator who was convicted of severely beating another woman, but a Douglas County judge on Monday gave the defendant another chance at probation instead. Jennifer Elaine Poeverlein was originally charged with aggravated robbery for a ...
Updated at 12:15 p.m. Monday, June 15, 2026 Potential jurors in a medical malpractice lawsuit were dismissed Monday morning after the parties reached a last-minute confidential settlement in a case that involved a surgeon's removal of the wrong organ. The case concerns Jeannine ...
A burglar threw a rock through the window at a smoke and vape shop in Lawrence just before midnight on Saturday, and Lawrence police are seeking additional information about the crime. The incident happened at Smoke Totz, 520 W. 23rd St., where police said a burglar raided the cash register ...
A man who was convicted of battery against three Douglas County corrections workers died in his cell at the El Dorado Correctional Facility, the Kansas Department of Corrections said in a news release Saturday morning. Joshua Matthews, 38, was found unresponsive in his cell on Friday. Staff ...
When the Kansas Bureau of Investigation began its inquiry into Sally Pokorny, she was perfectly cooperative. The KBI agent wanted to talk to her neighbors. She gave him a few names, but the agent, thinking those ones would just say positive things about her, told her he “went and talked to ...