Updated at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 17 A defendant who was convicted of murdering a man in front of the Lawrence Public Library in 2024 has been ordered to serve more than 51 years in prison. Judge Stacey Donovan on Wednesday handed down the 620-month term requested by the state and denied the ...

In a rare jury trial involving a juvenile defendant, Douglas County jurors on Wednesday acquitted a teenager of two counts of aggravated assault. Jurors reached the not-guilty verdicts on Wednesday morning after a two-day trial. The felony offenses were alleged to have occurred in October ...

The Lawrence Police Department announced Monday it will increase its presence around the holidays to combat drunk driving. The department announced in a press release Monday it will join law enforcement across the state by joining the “Taking Down DUI” campaign from Dec. 26 to Jan 2. The ...

A defendant was found guilty Friday of felony battery against a county law enforcement officer. The defendant, Dustin Parrish, pleaded no contest to the offense as part of a plea deal with the Douglas County District Attorney's Office, which dropped three other felony counts as part of the ...

An arrest affidavit for a former award-winning paraprofessional in the Lawrence school district alleges that the para inappropriately touched a middle school boy, asked him to undress and gave him dozens of late-night car rides. Caleb Zachary Rahmeier, the former para who was honored in ...

A woman who was critically injured and whose dog was killed by a hit-and-run driver last year told a Douglas County judge on Friday that she hoped the driver would be treated with compassion as she completes her court-ordered probation. The woman said that the driver, 37-year-old Lasean Dixon, ...