After a four-day trial, a Douglas County jury on Friday acquitted a woman of five of the six charges she faced in a domestic abuse case. Jurors convicted defendant Shaleah Kauffman only on one count of violation of a protective order, a misdemeanor. On the other five counts — aggravated ...

A Douglas County judge on Thursday ordered a 38-year-old Lawrence man to stand trial for rape after a woman testified that the man, a close friend, had assaulted her at his apartment last year. The 30-year-old woman, who sobbed and shook as she testified, said the assault occurred in June ...

A 24-year-old man has been ordered to stand trial in the drug overdose of a young Lawrence mother. The woman's husband testified Thursday that he returned from his night shift on March 8 and found his wife, Marisa Greene, unresponsive with their 1-year-old daughter crawling around her ...

There is apparently no question that he was a Lawrence teacher in his mid-30s and she was a sophomore in high school when they began having a sexual relationship a quarter of a century ago. The question - the legal one, at least - will be whether the relationship occurred in the first part of ...

Story updated at 4:05 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 21: The man arrested in Sunday's homicide in downtown Lawrence has now been charged with second-degree murder in Douglas County District Court. The charge was filed Wednesday morning against Daileon Maurice Thomas, 23, of Olathe, who is accused of ...

For the second year in a row, the Lawrence Police Department has received a top honor for traffic safety from the Kansas Department of Transportation. KDOT law enforcement liaison Don Hughes presented the "platinum" safety award to members of LPD on Tuesday night at the Lawrence City ...