A man who was convicted of battery against three Douglas County corrections workers died in his cell at the El Dorado Correctional Facility, the Kansas Department of Corrections said in a news release Saturday morning. Joshua Matthews, 38, was found unresponsive in his cell on Friday. Staff ...
When the Kansas Bureau of Investigation began its inquiry into Sally Pokorny, she was perfectly cooperative. The KBI agent wanted to talk to her neighbors. She gave him a few names, but the agent, thinking those ones would just say positive things about her, told her he “went and talked to ...
The Lawrence Police Department is seeking additional information in a child sex crime case involving an Indiana man who was once a high school teacher in Lawrence. John Matthew Lotz, 62, of Terre Haute, Indiana, was booked into the Douglas County Jail on June 2, as the Journal-World ...
The Perry-Lecompton school district has implemented an AI gun detection technology to protect students and staff from gun-related threats. The software is known as ZeroEyes, a multi-analytics weapons detection and threat intelligence platform that is often easily integrated with an existing ...
A registered sex offender who could have faced a sentence of more than 20 years in prison was sentenced Thursday afternoon to three years of probation based on a joint motion from the defense and prosecution. Michael Ken Aller, 36, of Lawrence, pleaded no contest to two counts of aggravated ...
A woman who was involved in a standoff with Lawrence police in April 2025 has been convicted by a Douglas County jury of firing on officers. The jury found Gina Marie Cabanas guilty of seven counts of aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer with a deadly weapon and one count of ...