A man told a Douglas County judge on Wednesday that he would like to spend his upcoming prison sentence at Larned State Hospital after entering a plea deal that reduced his attempted murder charge in connection with an attack near a North Lawrence homeless camp. Tristen Lamont Hollins, 43, ...
A man was arrested early Wednesday morning for allegedly exposing himself and urinating as police were talking to him about a reported fight in a bar's parking lot. He was one of three men arrested in the past 24 hours arrested on suspicion of indecent exposure or lewd conduct. Lawrence ...
A man testified on Tuesday that he had never met the Lawrence teen who allegedly shot him twice in the leg during a drug deal gone bad and that he still has bullet fragments from the incident in his leg. Cameron Jay Cooper, 18, of Lawrence, is charged with one felony count each of aggravated ...
The Douglas County District Attorney's Office is requesting that the probable cause affidavit of a New York-registered violent sex offender accused of multiple child sex crimes in Douglas County be kept under wraps. Senior Assistant District Attorney Ricardo Leal has asked a judge to seal the ...
The attorney for a man alleged to have shot at a Baldwin City bar and library with the intent to kill says the man’s confession was coerced and should have been too bizarre for investigators to believe. The defendant, Junah Augustus Sisney, 22, of Baldwin City, is charged in Douglas County ...
Residents can safely dispose of their unwanted and expired medications on Saturday at the Lawrence Police Department headquarters as part of the Drug Enforcement Administration's annual Take Back Day. According to a release from the police department, people can anonymously dispose of their ...