A man who was convicted of aggravated battery following a drunk-driving incident that injured a person last summer was sentenced on Tuesday to 10 months in prison, suspended to 18 months of probation. Kody Rothfus, 34, pleaded no contest on March 6 to one count of aggravated battery while ...
Updated at 5:55 p.m. Tuesday, April 28 Two Douglas County Jail inmates charged with gun crimes and awaiting trial are now being charged with trafficking contraband in a correctional facility. Eighteen-year-old Caiden Clem, who has been charged with four counts of aggravated assault and one ...
A 34-year-old Baldwin City woman was arrested Sunday after allegedly assaulting a police officer with a rock and barricading herself inside a residence. The officer responded to a domestic violence call just after 9 a.m. Sunday in the 200 block of Eisenhower Street, according to a news release ...
Multiple fire department trucks responded just after noon Monday to an incident at Warren-McElwain Mortuary. Battalion Chief Aaron Flory said Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical units were called to a structure fire at the funeral home, 120 W. 13th St., but when they arrived they detected ...
Updated at 11 a.m. Monday, April 27 A 30-year-old man who was accused of stabbing another man outside a Lawrence restaurant two years ago was sentenced on Monday to 12 months in prison, suspended to 24 months of probation. The defendant, Edgar Oropeza Diaz, was originally charged with ...