A Lawrence man was charged on Wednesday with two counts of rape and other sex crimes. Travis Lee Turner, 36, is charged in Douglas County District Court with two counts of rape by force or fear and two counts of aggravated sodomy, all felonies, according to charging documents. The charges are ...
Two drivers from Lawrence were injured — one seriously — in a crash on Interstate 70 on Wednesday morning, according to the Kansas Highway Patrol. According to a crash report from the patrol, the crash took place around 8:30 a.m. in Leavenworth County, just past the Douglas County line. ...
Updated at 4:20 p.m. Wednesday, May 14 “Sorry, I’m asleep; I don’t know what happened.” That’s how a man says he responded to a woman who had just accused him of rape — and a defense expert told a Douglas County jury that the man was "likely" experiencing sexsomnia at the ...
In 2017 they were four young men on the cusp of adulthood, celebrating KU graduation at a weekend house party. "The whole gang" was there — drinking, smoking marijuana, barhopping, hanging out — with no inkling that by Sunday morning the house would become a crime scene and that eight years ...
Fifteen people, including two judges from Douglas County, applied by a noon deadline Monday to fill a vacancy on the Kansas Supreme Court that will be created when Justice Evelyn Wilson resigns July 4. Douglas County District judges Amy Hanley and Carl Adrian Folsom III applied for the seat. ...
A 30-year-old woman has been waiting eight years to tell a jury what happened to her on KU graduation weekend in 2017. On Monday that long-awaited opportunity arrived as she faced Reston K. Phillips in Douglas County District Court and told jurors that he sexually violated her as she slept ...