A Lawrence man was charged with multiple crimes on Tuesday after he allegedly attacked people with a beer bottle before trying to run them over. The man, Ceferino Garcia Reyes, 20, is charged in Douglas County District Court with two felony counts of aggravated battery, one felony count of ...
Oral arguments in the disciplinary matter of former Douglas County District Attorney Suzanne Valdez are now on the docket at the Kansas Supreme Court, which will soon determine what, if any, punishment she will receive after a disciplinary panel found nearly a year ago that she had violated the ...
The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office and the Kansas Turnpike Authority are warning residents about another scam circulating via text message regarding bogus toll collections. An employee with the sheriff’s office received multiple texts last week about unpaid tolls with a link to a fake ...
A Lawrence man whom a jury acquitted three months ago of attempting to murder his pregnant wife is facing new allegations of domestic violence. Dustin Ian Lane, 39, was charged Monday in Douglas County District Court with felony criminal threat, misdemeanor criminal restraint and misdemeanor ...
A 24-year-old Lawrence man was arrested Sunday evening on suspicion of drunkenly crashing into multiple parked cars and leaving the scene. Eduardo Reyes Ruiz was arrested around 5 p.m. Sunday after police were called to an apartment complex on 26th Street just east of Holcom Park. Police found ...
A shooting Wednesday that left a 23-year-old Lawrence man in critical condition was "for all intents and purposes an accident" about which the suspect in the case "feels terrible," a defense attorney told a Douglas County judge Friday afternoon while attempting, unsuccessfully, to secure an ...