Updated at 6:10 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 2 A Douglas County judge has ordered a Lawrence teen to stand trial for first-degree, premeditated murder in the shooting death of a 17-year-old boy earlier this year. The defendant, Cir Allen Keith Glover, 19, appeared in court Wednesday for the second ...

A Lawrence man who was accused of going on a violent rampage with a hammer and a Jeep last spring pleaded no contest on Wednesday in Douglas County District Court to felony criminal threat and now faces more than a year in prison. Ronald Dwayne Walters, 51, was originally charged with multiple ...

Reports of rape on the University of Kansas’ Lawrence campus fell in 2023, but allegations of stalking rose sharply and hit a new three-year high, according to a new campus security report. KU officials on the Lawrence campus — anybody from police officers to counselors — received seven ...

The days of police business being aired over a “scanner” are nearing their end as Douglas County law enforcement agencies move to a system of fully encrypted radio communication to comply with a federal mandate. This means that the public, including news outlets, will not be able to hear ...

The topic of experience dominated Monday’s district attorney candidate forum, with Republican Mike Warner touting his three decades as a prosecutor and Democrat Dakota Loomis emphasizing his longtime familiarity with and connections to the local legal system. The two candidates, vying to ...

Updated at 6:09 p.m. Friday, Sept. 27 A Lawrence man was sentenced Friday to 31 months in prison for involuntary manslaughter in connection with a 2023 shooting that killed a Topeka man. The man, Maliqe Crenshaw, 23, was originally charged with one felony count of second-degree murder in ...