Douglas County and the sheriffs, former and present, named in a federal lawsuit filed by Rontarus Washington Jr. for wrongful incarceration are seeking dismissal of the case based on qualified immunity, the statute of limitations and failure to specify a violation. The lawsuit was filed on ...
Updated at 1:35 p.m. Thursday, March 30, 2023 Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical crews extinguished a fire at a park shelter early Thursday morning that caused an estimated $40,000 in damage. Fire crews were dispatched at 5:50 a.m. to Chief Jim McSwain Park at the corner of East 19th Street ...
A man originally charged with attempted murder after what was alleged to have been a revenge-fueled drive-by shooting pleaded no contest to lesser crimes Wednesday in Douglas County District Court. Jermey Anthony Johnson, 25, originally faced two counts of attempted first-degree murder by ...
A Eudora man was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of his fourth or subsequent DUI. He allegedly had three children in his truck at the time and crashed into a parked car. Douglas County dispatchers started receiving calls around 6 p.m. about a white Dodge Ram pickup that was having difficulty ...
A Lawrence man pleaded no contest to attempted murder in the second degree on Wednesday for an incident in 2022 when he attempted to throw a woman off the Kansas River Bridge into the river. The man, Adam Blake Amyx Jr., 38, was also charged in Douglas County District Court with three felony ...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved selling the leading version of naloxone without a prescription, setting the overdose-reversing drug on course to become the first opioid treatment drug to be sold over the counter. It's a move that some advocates have long sought as a ...