Two former employees of the Wyandotte County District Court have received prison sentences for using their positions in the accounting office to steal approximately $980,000 in taxpayer funds, according to a news release Tuesday from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of ...

Updated at 3:45 p.m. Tuesday, June 30, 2026 A repeat felon who was granted probation just last month after his attorney assured a judge that he was a "new man" was arrested Monday afternoon on suspicion of arson and two other felonies. The May sentence of probation was extraordinary in that ...

TOPEKA — The Kansas Supreme Court upheld the death sentences of the brothers who went on a crime spree in 2000 in Wichita, putting an end to two decades of attempts to alter the brothers’ fates. Reginald and Jonathan Carr were initially convicted of more than 90 counts, including capital ...

A man accused of three sex crimes against two Lawrence children in the early 2000s pleaded not guilty on Monday, waived his upcoming preliminary hearing and told the court that he and the state intended to talk to a local judge about possibly mediating the case. David Zimbrick, who's been ...

A defendant accused of interfering with law enforcement will be allowed to argue at trial that police bias played a role in his arrest, but he will not be allowed to subpoena a file that he claims was compiled by Lawrence police to vilify him and to interfere with his rights under the First ...

A portion of Iowa Street will be reduced to one lane in each direction and have turning restrictions as part of a road maintenance project starting next week. The City of Lawrence, in partnership with the Kansas Department of Transportation, will begin street maintenance work on Iowa Street ...