Douglas County pro tem Judge Blake Glover will fill the vacancy created by Judge Sally Pokorny's retirement, Gov. Laura Kelly's office announced Friday. Glover was one of three finalists selected by the 7th Judicial District Nominating Commission to replace Pokorny, who retired in April. The ...
A defendant accused of killing a man and seriously injuring the man’s child in a head-on collision last year pleaded guilty Thursday in Douglas County District Court to reckless second-degree murder and aggravated battery while driving under the influence. The defendant, Zachary Odom, 30, of ...
A 20-year-old Lawrence man pleaded not guilty on Thursday in a case in which he is accused of shooting two people earlier this year and endangering others. The man, Jaystyn James Curtiss, is now scheduled to be tried on Nov. 30. In an amended complaint filed June 29, the Douglas County ...
Updated at 12:40 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 13 Victims' relatives and law enforcement officials hugged one another Thursday after a Douglas County judge sentenced a Lawrence man to consecutive life terms for murdering two men and attempting to murder several more, including police officers who were ...
A man accused of murdering a 35-year-old woman last summer in Lawrence has been declared incompetent to stand trial. Douglas County District Court records indicate that Aaron Blake Wright, 64, was found unfit for trial earlier this month and was ordered by Judge Amy Hanley to undergo treatment ...
A repeat drug offender who was accused in a Lawrence woman’s fentanyl death in 2022 has pleaded guilty in new cases to possessing methamphetamine and to violating the offender registration act. William Byrd, of Lawrence, recently entered the pleas as part of a deal with the state. In one ...