He’s getting older and a little slower; he’s walking a bit stiffer, but Lawrence Police Department dog Shadow still has what it takes to be a champ. Shadow, age 7, proved that over the weekend at the third annual K-9 Games in Topeka, where he took first place in the “Keyless Entry” ...
A frequent public commenter who has filed more than a dozen lawsuits claiming his civil rights have been violated lost another federal case recently — his third major defeat in his attempt to prove that he is being wronged by the government. In mid-August, Judge Julie Robinson threw out ...
A businessman from Lawrence has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for violating United States customs laws by selling advanced aviation technology to Russian end users, according to a news release Thursday from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Kansas. Cyril Gregory ...
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 ...