Updated at 5:15 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 20 About an hour after a jury began deliberating a Douglas County aggravated assault case, the parties were called back into the courtroom over what appeared to be a grave matter. Judge Stacey Donovan did not publicly disclose what the issue was, but it ...
Updated at 5:35 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 20 A Douglas County jury on Thursday acquitted a defendant who claimed that he had pulled a handgun at a gas station last year in self-defense because he feared that another store patron was going to kill him. The jury of six men and six women listened to ...
A witness told a Douglas County jury that his simple failure to return a stranger's nod at a gas station led to the stranger angrily pulling a gun on him, but a defense attorney told jurors that the armed man was clearly acting in self-defense and that it was the unarmed man who should be on ...
The multimillion-dollar, 158,000-square-foot addition to Douglas County's Judicial and Law Enforcement Center is coming to life as court offices have steadily migrated from the older part of the building in recent weeks. People who have courtroom business will notice quite a few changes as ...
A man who was apprehended in connection with a KU student's death last year has been charged with multiple misdemeanors that he allegedly committed two days after the student's death when he was still at large. The more recent charges were filed earlier this summer and are in addition to the ...
The jail booking log and other features of the Douglas County sheriff's website have been offline for days, and the sheriff's office on Friday acknowledged that it had identified "suspicious activity on certain computer systems" that had caused issues with its system. The office had previously ...