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 ...
After a group of young men were escorted out of a Lawrence bar for being underage, they met up with a KU student and bought wristbands from him that purported to show they were at least 21 and that enabled their entry. Two hours later, the group would be connected to two shootings at the bar, ...
Updated at 5:35 p.m. Wednesday, July 22 A 23-year-old man was convicted Wednesday in Douglas County District Court of two attempted murders and aggravated assault for a series of public shootings more than three years ago in downtown Baldwin City. The defendant, Junah Sisney, was convicted ...
A man accused of stealing tens of thousands of dollars from the Dillons grocery that employed him has worked out a diversion agreement with the Douglas County District Attorney's Office, his lawyer told a judge Wednesday. "We have reached an agreement; it just needs to be typed up," Hatem ...
A maintenance man for an apartment complex in southwest Lawrence reportedly shot and killed a group of raccoons in the complex's dumpster — in front of children — and now could face charges of animal cruelty and unlawful discharge of a firearm. The incident occurred Friday at Village at ...
A former award-winning paraprofessional in the Lawrence school district has been charged with two more sex crimes against children, bringing the number of criminal charges to four. The Douglas County District Attorney's Office recently charged Caleb Zachary Rahmeier with attempted sexual ...