A man who was scheduled to stand trial this week for his fifth DUI instead pleaded no contest to the offense in a last-minute deal that let him evade several other charges. Dustin Lee Welch, 44, of Topeka, was found guilty Tuesday in Douglas County District Court of an incident on Sept. 4, ...
Lawrence police arrested a man Saturday on suspicion of attempted murder and other crimes after an incident involving gunfire inside a vehicle, according to a post on the police department's Facebook page on Sunday. The post said police were called to the area of Morningside and Brush Creek ...
A Lawrence man on Friday was acquitted by a jury of choking a woman — his second such acquittal in Douglas County in less than three months. Servando Martinez-Vazquez, 24, was tried this week after being charged with aggravated domestic battery by choking, felony criminal threat and ...
A mother who lost a son to a fentanyl overdose described her “crippling grief” Friday morning to a Douglas County judge at the sentencing hearing of the woman who had a hand in the young man’s death. Christina Aldridge, the mother of Cameron Bricker, who died at age 26 on Dec. 9, 2022, ...
A New York man has been extradited to Douglas County to face a charge that he engaged in electronic solicitation of a child. The man, Kyle Anthony Elder, of Tonawanda, New York, was booked into the Douglas County Jail at 12:30 a.m. Thursday, and his bond was set at $250,000 cash or ...
A former college basketball player who was arrested, charged and then quickly acquitted of rape intends to sue the City of Lawrence for nearly $12 million, according to a document obtained through the Kansas Open Records Act. Attorneys for Terrence Shannon have filed a notice of claim against ...