The Lawrence Police Department announced Monday it will increase its presence around the holidays to combat drunk driving. The department announced in a press release Monday it will join law enforcement across the state by joining the “Taking Down DUI” campaign from Dec. 26 to Jan 2. The ...

A defendant was found guilty Friday of felony battery against a county law enforcement officer. The defendant, Dustin Parrish, pleaded no contest to the offense as part of a plea deal with the Douglas County District Attorney's Office, which dropped three other felony counts as part of the ...

An arrest affidavit for a former award-winning paraprofessional in the Lawrence school district alleges that the para inappropriately touched a middle school boy, asked him to undress and gave him dozens of late-night car rides. Caleb Zachary Rahmeier, the former para who was honored in ...

A woman who was critically injured and whose dog was killed by a hit-and-run driver last year told a Douglas County judge on Friday that she hoped the driver would be treated with compassion as she completes her court-ordered probation. The woman said that the driver, 37-year-old Lasean Dixon, ...

In a courtroom hallway Friday, the brother of a slain man tightly embraced the sister of the man's killer — in acknowledgement of the loss both families have suffered. The emotional gesture — rare in criminal cases — followed the sentencing hearing of 58-year-old Robert Earl Davis, who ...

On Saturday, the Johnson County Sheriff's Office identified a man killed in an officer-involved shooting at the Panasonic plant in De Soto as 55-year-old Jonathan Lunceford of Blue Springs, Missouri. Law enforcement was called to the plant on Friday on reports of a stabbing and when they ...