A Lawrence man entered a no contest plea Monday in Douglas County District Court to two counts of sexual battery as part of a plea agreement in which the state dismissed additional sex crimes involving teenage girls. The man, Richard Eugene Marshall, 49, was originally charged with multiple ...
A Eudora man was sentenced to probation Monday in connection with an incident in 2020 in which he was alleged to have sexually assaulted a woman in her home. The man, Griffin D. Oxley, 22, entered a no contest plea to one felony count of aggravated sexual battery in April, according to court ...
New details have emerged about why a former Douglas County sheriff's deputy is facing a domestic battery charge stemming from a Halloween party in 2020. The former deputy, Breanna S. Pence, 32, is facing one count of misdemeanor domestic battery, after allegedly battering another employee of ...
As of Monday morning, police still have not identified a man who was discovered shot to death in Lawrence over the weekend. The Lawrence Police Department asked for the public's help in identifying the man and discovering more about the crime, which occurred overnight Saturday. On Monday ...
Updated at 5 p.m. Saturday, June 3 A motorcyclist was hospitalized after an accident Friday on U.S. Highway 59 south of Lawrence. In an email, Douglas County Sheriff's Office spokesman George Diepenbrock wrote that shorty after 2 p.m. Friday, a 76-year-old motorcyclist from Council Bluffs, ...
The Lawrence Police Department is asking the public to help identify the victim of an early-morning homicide in west Lawrence as well as information on the crime. According to a post on the Lawrence Police Department's Facebook page, officers responded to reports of gunfire shortly after 1 ...