A Douglas County judge on Friday praised a teenager's courage for recounting the nightmare she said she had endured for years at the hands of "a monster, a rapist and a pedophile." "To say those things in a room full of people" took a commendable amount of strength, Judge Stacey Donovan told ...
A judge on Thursday sentenced a man to more than two years in prison following his Dec. 11 plea deal to attempted aggravated battery. Jason Lee Stark, 35, was facing three felony charges — attempted aggravated robbery, interference with law enforcement and criminal use of weapons ...
A defendant accused of aggravated kidnapping and aggravated robbery was set to have a preliminary hearing on Thursday but instead got a new attorney. Garnel Andreus Moore Williams, 31, is facing the two felony charges for a November incident in which Lawrence police said several people were ...
Updated at 3:52 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 15 Nearly three months after a driver reportedly crossed a highway's center line and killed an area actor in a head-on collision, little is publicly known about the investigation into the fatality, but Douglas County District Attorney Dakota Loomis said he ...
Several keys have been recovered after a woman allegedly stole them, and the Lawrence Police Department is hoping to find their owners. On Monday, officers were called to a "storage area" at the 600 block of Massachusetts Street after a man said he was moving boxes and left the garage door ...
A defendant accused of viciously attacking a homeless man in downtown Lawrence has been ordered to stand trial, although plea negotiations are underway. The 49-year-old man testified that the defendant, Shaun Donovan Bernie, 33, attacked him from behind last fall, causing significant injuries ...