A man accused of hitting a woman, pulling her hair and chasing her with a baseball bat earlier this year at and outside the Lawrence Public Library was ordered on Friday to stand trial on a charge of aggravated assault. At a preliminary hearing, Judge Stacey Donovan found that the state had ...

If you have traffic fines that need paying in Lawrence Municipal Court, you can get credit toward them by donating school supplies for local students over the next few weeks. Municipal Court is currently holding its annual School Supplies for Fines drive, in which people who bring $15 worth of ...

Riders generally “feel safe in most places” on Lawrence Transit's bus routes, a new survey shows, “except for one” — the stop across from the Lawrence Public Library on Vermont Street. That's from a report the City of Lawrence shared this month on the transit survey, which got 222 ...

Updated at 3:50 p.m. Tuesday, July 28, 2026 A 50-year-old man was charged Tuesday with a felony after passersby accused him of masturbating in public in downtown Lawrence. The man, Jimmy Lee Hadl, of Lawrence, was arrested early Monday evening at Ninth and Vermont streets. According to the ...

A 39-year-old man accused of rape and other crimes was declared incompetent to stand trial Tuesday in Douglas County District Court. In April, a psychologist at Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center, Sara Godinez, determined that defendant Kevin Renee Robertson was competent to stand trial ...

A teenager who was set to stand trial in less than two weeks for allegedly raping and sodomizing a Lawrence 5-year-old accepted a plea deal Thursday in Douglas County District Court. The teen, who was 14 when the crime occurred on Nov. 17, 2024, pleaded no contest to an amended count of ...