After operating for one year, Douglas County's newest collaborative approach to criminal justice has helped seven military veterans get back on their feet after run-ins with the law - run-ins that, under other circumstances, could easily have sent them into a downward spiral with little hope of ...

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 ...