A registered sex offender who was found guilty of another sex crime against a child was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Thursday in Douglas County District Court. The offender, Calvin Lee Payne, 36, was convicted in September after pleading no contest to one count of criminal sodomy against ...
A woman called dispatch on Thursday morning after seeing an apparently intoxicated man climbing a metal archway sculpture in Watson Park. The call came in just before 10 a.m. after the woman saw a shirtless man climbing the sculpture, according to a social media post from the Lawrence Police ...
Lawrence police are asking the public for help investigating shots that were fired on Harper Street on Wednesday. According to a social media post from the Lawrence Police Department, officers were dispatched to the 1500 block of Harper Street around 2:30 a.m. Wednesday after someone reported ...
The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office will have more deputies patrolling on county roads and highways from this Saturday, Nov. 22, through Thanksgiving weekend, looking for people without seat belts and impaired and distracted drivers. A news release from the Sheriff's Office on Thursday said ...
A violent sex offender from New York accepted a plea agreement from prosecutors in Douglas County District Court on Thursday, avoiding a jury trial that was scheduled for next month. Kyle Elder, 35, pleaded no contest to two counts of aggravated abuse of a child, both felonies. Under the plea ...
Former Douglas County District Attorney Suzanne Valdez always believed that Carrody Buchhorn murdered 9-month-old Oliver Ortiz at a Eudora day care in 2016, and an expert's report saying that Oliver died of natural causes didn't change her mind one bit, she testified Wednesday at Buchhorn's ...