A Lawrence man who has racked up 37 criminal convictions in the past 30 years was sentenced on Tuesday to 17 years in prison for invading a Lawrence woman’s home at gunpoint and robbing her. Douglas County District Court Judge Stacey Donovan handed down the sentence to Chester Wendell ...

Updated at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 7 Eleven former residents of a Lawrence homeless camp took the witness stand Monday to testify about events surrounding the homicide of a fellow camper in February, painting a lurid picture of heavy drug use and interpersonal strife but also of a close-knit ...

Both candidates vying to be Douglas County’s next district attorney acknowledged, at a forum Sunday, that unquestionable discrimination exists in the criminal justice system against people of color, and they vowed to combat it if elected. “There is no question that endemically and ...

A convicted felon’s hopes of evading prison were disappointed Friday when he was handed a prison sentence as well as a lecture about being an adult. “You had an assault rifle and you pointed it at a group of children,” Judge Amy Hanley told Maurice De’Anton Thomas Buckner, 34, who was ...

Douglas County deputies on Friday arrested an Oklahoma man who allegedly fled from them after they stopped his car in connection with a reported robbery. The Douglas County Sheriff's Office said in a news release that the strong-arm robbery was reported just after noon at Chick-fil-A, 2735 ...

The family of a 21-year-old man who died of a fentanyl overdose more than three years ago was incensed and saddened Friday when the woman responsible for his death was allowed yet another delay in the case — this time a delay in her sentencing for involuntary manslaughter, ostensibly because ...