The National Weather Service and the weather departments of multiple area television stations are reporting that a tornado touched down in Ottawa on Monday evening. City of Ottawa officials reported late Monday evening that the storm caused structural damage in the community but “most ...
A speech pathologist accused of molesting multiple children at a Lawrence elementary school pleaded not guilty Monday afternoon at his formal arraignment in Douglas County District Court. Mark Gridley on Monday waived a formal reading of his charges and pleaded not guilty to all of the felony ...
A City of Lawrence bus driver on Monday testified that a woman pried the bus doors open, physically intimidated her, called her foul names, then stole her bus and drove it across town last September. "Bitch, we're going to the TRC," the woman told her, she testified. TRC is a reference to the ...
Updated at 11:15 a.m. Monday, April 13 The families of two men who were shot in January at The Hawk, one fatally, expressed disbelief Monday when they got word, last minute, that another continuance was granted for the defense. "Are you (expletive) kidding me?" one relative said as prosecutor ...
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 ...