A Kentucky man has been charged in Douglas County District Court with two felonies after allegedly burglarizing a building and stealing multiple dirt bikes. Kahle Henderson, 25, turned himself in Tuesday afternoon, according to Douglas County Sheriff’s Office spokesman George Diepenbrock. ...
Updated at 9:40 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 14 The Douglas County District Attorney's Office and the lawyer for a man accused of numerous sex crimes are attempting to reach a "global resolution" for five separate cases the man is facing. The process involves working with the U.S. Attorney's Office, ...
A claim by a child plaintiff that the Lawrence school district is vicariously liable for sexual battery by a speech pathologist at a Lawrence elementary school will move forward for now. The civil lawsuit relates to allegations that the school district bears some responsibility for the ...
Douglas County sheriff's deputies arrested an 18-year-old Lawrence man early Tuesday after he was allegedly driving 100 mph on Massachusetts Street. A deputy at 2:30 a.m. initially noticed a white Honda Accord speeding near 23rd Street and Haskell Avenue, according to sheriff's spokesman ...
A former deputy with the Douglas County Sheriff's Office has lost his certification to be a law enforcement officer in Kansas after he was found to have lied about the location of an accident he was in while driving a county transport vehicle. Brandon Lewis, who had been with the sheriff's ...
A 35-year old Lawrence man has been charged in Douglas County District Court with three counts of rape, allegedly involving sexual intercourse with two children under the age of 14. Jordey Michel McTaggart was charged on July 22 and was arrested and booked into the Douglas County Jail on July ...