A Douglas County jury on Thursday convicted a 27-year-old Lawrence woman of felony interference with law enforcement after she refused to obey officers who were attempting to arrest her last winter. The incident occurred on Jan. 7 outside a Hy-Vee gas station, where the woman, Jaleigha ...
A half-cent sales tax in Eudora could support three full-time firefighters and give the city around-the-clock-fire protection for the first time in its history if voters approve the measure on election day. The 0.5% sales tax would be spent on public safety expenses and cover the roughly ...
Updated at 5:25 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 15 A teen who got into a barroom altercation and fired his gun multiple times on the night of a fatal shooting at The Hawk pleaded guilty to multiple felonies on Thursday in Douglas County District Court. Caiden Clem, 19, of Atchison, was originally charged ...
A city bus driver on Thursday told a judge how she had been traumatized by the forceful takeover of her bus by a thief last summer. "Not only my life changed but my whole family's," she said at the sentencing hearing for Sherika Carey. The driver, who was unable to work for a period, is now ...
Two Douglas County District Court judges are on this year's ballot for a retention vote. Judge Amy Hanley and Judge Stacey Donovan, both of Lawrence, handle felony criminal cases, and each presides over a specialty court. Hanley runs the Veterans Treatment Court, and Donovan runs the ...
A former award-winning paraprofessional in the Lawrence school district pleaded not guilty Tuesday to multiple child sex crimes. Caleb Rahmeier, in a third amended complaint filed in August, has been charged with aggravated indecent liberties with a child, sexual exploitation of a child, and ...