This story was updated at 4 p.m. on Monday, October 14, 2024. Douglas County residents can remove expired and unneeded medications from their homes as the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office and Lawrence Police Department will operate National Prescription Drug Take Back Day collection sites in ...
The two men competing to be the next district attorney for Douglas County have both been highly critical of the outgoing one-term DA, citing high turnover in the office, poor outcomes in the courtroom and damaged relationships with police and judges, among other issues. Each candidate has ...
A woman accused in a March hit-and-run that killed a dog and critically injured its owner has applied for a diversion in the case. Lasean Dixon, of Lawrence, made her first court appearance in September on a felony charge of leaving the scene of an injury accident, and she appeared again on ...
A 22-year-old Eudora man on Tuesday was ordered to stand trial on four counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after witnesses testified that he pulled a gun on them out of the blue as they sat in a car in downtown Lawrence. The four witnesses, three of them minors from Franklin ...
A Lawrence man accused of murdering his wife over two years ago is still not fit to stand trial. Chad Marek's defense attorney, John Kerns, told Judge Stacey Donovan at a status conference on Wednesday in Douglas County District Court that Marek was "still getting treatment." Marek has been ...
A Douglas County judge, after a two-day bench trial, on Tuesday found a Lawrence man guilty of multiple sex crimes against children in a long-running case in which the man had at one point described himself to police as a “monster” but then opted to spend years fighting the charges. Judge ...