Judge Sally Pokorny warned the crowd at her retirement ceremony Friday that she was a "crier," and sure enough she shed a few tears almost immediately as she declared "I'm the luckiest woman in the world." That was the "bottom line of my entire life," she said: luck. Luck in having the ...
A man accused of sexually assaulting five women while providing massage services at a yoga studio in Baldwin City has been charged with rape and multiple other sex crimes, the Douglas County District Attorney's Office announced on Friday. The DA's Office said in a news release that 44-year-old ...
When Kris Wilcoxson heard recently that Judge Sally Pokorny would be retiring on April 10, he made a beeline over to the courthouse to thank her. Pokorny had just wrapped up one of her final sessions of Behavioral Health Court, which she presided over in a multi-zippered black leather jacket ...
Two Hispanic construction workers on Thursday told a Douglas County judge that they still have nightmares about an armed and angry man assaulting them one summer morning two years ago as they worked. They thought the man, Craig Endecott, of Baldwin City, was going to kill them with his rifle, ...
The Lawrence Police Department on Wednesday announced that one of its officers died on April 3 and that the Douglas County Sheriff's Office is conducting an investigation, though "no foul play is suspected." In a news release, LPD said that 28-year-old Officer Zachary Garcia-Kerns honorably ...
Two young children are dead after their young sibling reportedly picked up a loaded, unsecured shotgun and fired, according to a news release from the Kansas Bureau of Investigation. The incident happened on March 28 in Brookville, which is in Ellsworth County about 20 miles southwest of ...