A plea agreement for a violent offender went off the rails Monday after a Douglas County judge informed the attorneys that they had been plea-bargaining using the wrong criminal complaint. After she discovered the parties' error, Judge Stacey Donovan reset the plea hearing for Wednesday to ...
Area fire crews were busy over the weekend not just with dangerous fire weather, but also with a water rescue at Clinton Lake after a boat capsized. Strong winds caused a sailboat to overturn on the lake around 1 p.m. Sunday, according to a social media post from the Douglas County Sheriff's ...
A woman told Lawrence police that her ex-boyfriend and father of her child sent her threatening text messages the day before he barged into her apartment and shot her new boyfriend in the abdomen, leaving the man with life-threatening injuries. "Someone is dying," the woman reported to ...
Updated at 3:30 p.m. Monday, March 23 A 42-year-old Lawrence man who was released from jail less than three weeks ago after the Douglas County District Attorney's Office dropped a murder charge against him is now back behind bars after he was arrested Friday night on suspicion of breaking into ...
A Lawrence man has been sentenced to eight years in prison after throwing a package of methamphetamine over a prison wall in Hutchinson, where he had formerly been incarcerated, according to a news release Friday from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Kansas. According to court ...
A woman who has worked for decades to keep the man who brutally raped her behind bars is again beseeching the Kansas Parole Board to not put “a very violent sexual predator” back into the community, and the Douglas County district attorney is backing her effort. The woman, Jean Rhea, was ...