A Douglas County jury on Tuesday watched dramatic video of a so-called citizen journalist being arrested for interfering with the duties of a police officer at the scene of a "high-intensity" armed standoff, and they heard from a teen who said it was "obvious" that no civilian should have ...
A Lawrence police sergeant testified for hours on Monday about her order to arrest a so-called "First Amendment auditor" who is charged with felony interference with law enforcement in connection with an armed standoff between police and a shooting suspect more than three years ago. A Douglas ...
After the computer system in the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office underwent an apparently serious cyberattack, the office is declining to release any details about the matter, including whether the attack exposed people’s personal information or how much taxpayer money is being spent on ...
Updated at 5:15 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 20 About an hour after a jury began deliberating a Douglas County aggravated assault case, the parties were called back into the courtroom over what appeared to be a grave matter. Judge Stacey Donovan did not publicly disclose what the issue was, but it ...
Updated at 5:35 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 20 A Douglas County jury on Thursday acquitted a defendant who claimed that he had pulled a handgun at a gas station last year in self-defense because he feared that another store patron was going to kill him. The jury of six men and six women listened to ...
A witness told a Douglas County jury that his simple failure to return a stranger's nod at a gas station led to the stranger angrily pulling a gun on him, but a defense attorney told jurors that the armed man was clearly acting in self-defense and that it was the unarmed man who should be on ...