A Lawrence man was ordered to stand trial Friday in Douglas County District Court after a preliminary hearing at which a woman testified that the man had sexually assaulted her as a child. The man, Dustyn Dwayne Polk, 47, acting as his own attorney, questioned the woman who has accused him of ...
Story updated at 6:30 p.m. Friday: A Douglas County jury on Friday convicted a Lawrence man of raping a teen who said another man in the room refused to help as she was being attacked. Ray Charles Atkins Jr., 22, was convicted of one felony count of rape related to an incident on July 19, ...
A woman on Thursday told a Douglas County jury how she tried to fight off an alleged rapist and how another man who was in the room refused to help her. The man accused of sexually assaulting the woman is Ray Charles Atkins Jr., 22, of Lawrence. He is charged with one count of rape, which is ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours. Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity up to 6 a.m. on the date listed and extending back to 6 a.m. on the previous day. Each listing includes a date, time and ...
A Lawrence man was taken to the hospital on Tuesday with a suspected serious injury after a possible medical condition made him drive into a guardrail in Sedgwick County. Calvin McLingberg, 28, was driving around 5 p.m. on the southbound ramp from I-135 to I-235 northbound in a 2012 Toyota ...
Data collection for a study on traffic stops in Douglas County may be over, but local law enforcement leaders say they won't let that be the end of the conversation about racial bias and policing. On Wednesday night at the Lawrence Public Library, several leaders from area law enforcement ...