A Topeka man has been charged with aggravated battery after allegedly bashing another man in the head with a thermos outside a Lawrence grocery store. According to an arrest affidavit in the case, the incident left a large wound on the victim, who was "covered in blood from his head to his ...
A man accused of murder in the highway death of a local actor waived his right to a preliminary hearing in another criminal matter on Tuesday. Eliseo J. Munoz, 24, was scheduled to have a preliminary hearing in that matter — a case in which he's charged with a third DUI and driving while ...
The other half of a duo who conspired to throw drugs over a state prison wall has now been sentenced to six and a half years in federal prison. Tommie Baggett, 26, was an inmate at the state prison in Hutchinson when he arranged with another felon — Jermel Fleming, 33, of Lawrence — to ...
A Baldwin City man on Monday was sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison for opening fire outside a bar and the town's public library nearly four years ago. "I feel very bad about all this, and I'm sorry that any of it happened," Junah Sisney told Judge Stacey Donovan at his sentencing in ...
The cybersecurity incident that struck public computer systems in the City of Eudora and the Douglas County Sheriff's Office was foreign ransomware that first hit the Eudora Police Department's system, the city’s recently dismissed IT administrator said. The attack — by a hacking group ...
A habitual DUI offender who's accused in the hit-and-run death of a KU student last November was ordered on Monday to stand trial in a separate DUI incident that allegedly occurred just nine weeks before the student's death. If convicted, the DUI would be the fourth or more for William Ray ...