A Douglas County District Court judge on Friday denied a request from a former Lawrence police officer accused of rape to try his case in a different venue. The ex-officer, Jonathan Gardner, 41, of Tonganoxie, requested the change of venue because, as he argued through his attorney John ...
The Lawrence/Douglas County chapter of Women for Kansas is hosting a public event next month featuring Douglas County District Attorney Suzanne Valdez. Valdez, a Democrat who was elected in 2020 and a former University of Kansas law professor, is scheduled to discuss "Doing Justice: The Need ...
A Lawrence man was charged with aggravated assault after he allegedly tried to hit two people with his car and rammed another vehicle Tuesday evening. Daniel Martinez Sanchez, 19, is charged in Douglas County District Court with two felony counts of aggravated assault and one misdemeanor ...
A man arrested after a year on the run from police was deemed incompetent Wednesday in Douglas County District Court to stand trial in an armed robbery case and in another case alleging battery on a law enforcement officer. The man, Casey Lamont Williams, 25, of Scranton, Kansas, appeared in ...
The name of a Lawrence woman who was accused of killing a baby at a Eudora day care and who underwent a yearslong ordeal maintaining her innocence has been added to the National Registry of Exonerations. Carrody Buchhorn, whose long-running murder case was recently dropped by the Douglas ...
Updated at 4:50 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023 A student is in custody and hundreds of middle school students are grappling with the ordeal of having been evacuated from their Lawrence school Thursday after it was the target of a bomb threat. The events — which ultimately turned up no ...