A woman who was accused of stealing a City of Lawrence bus last summer and driving it across town has pleaded no contest to lesser charges and is scheduled to be sentenced next month. The woman, Sherika Carey, was originally charged with robbery, fleeing or attempting to elude police and ...
A case against a criminal defendant was dismissed on Wednesday after a Douglas County judge found that Lawrence police officers had acted unlawfully. Judge Stacey Donovan on Aug. 28 granted a motion to suppress evidence in the case of Elijah Joseph Garcia, who was facing felony charges of ...
A Lawrence teen who was seriously injured in a fatal car accident last year in Leavenworth County was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of involuntary manslaughter. Kaiden Jordan Jimenez was taken into custody in Overland Park on a felony warrant out of Leavenworth County, though it wasn't ...
Government officials continue to say very little about a cybersecurity issue that has significantly affected taxpayer-funded computer systems, including whether incidents in the City of Eudora and the Douglas County Sheriff's Office are related and whether the incidents have exposed the ...
A former murder defendant was ordered on Wednesday to stand trial for robbery and aggravated burglary. Julius Beasley was arrested on suspicion of the two felonies in March, less than three weeks after the Douglas County District Attorney’s Office dropped a murder charge against him. He has ...
Updated at 3:57 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 2 Anyone who has visited the new Judicial and Law Enforcement Center more than once has likely heard about — or personally experienced — frustrations with the lone elevator available to the public. The county's courtrooms are located in what's called ...