Senior Judge Nancy Parrish couldn't "ever remember doing it before," but on Thursday she did it: She gave probation to a defendant who has seven prior person felonies and the worst possible criminal history score. Parrish, who called the hearing "a particularly difficult sentencing," said she ...
A Lawrence man charged with shooting two individuals last week is asking for a court order that would allow him to see his infant daughter, who is reportedly dying. Jaystyn James Curtiss, who turns 20 on Thursday, appeared in Douglas County District Court via video from the jail Wednesday with ...
Three of the seven people seeking to fill a vacant seat on the Kansas Supreme Court are from Lawrence, and you can watch their live job interviews on Thursday. The Lawrence candidates will have interviews in Topeka as follows: Douglas County District Court Judge Carl Folsom III at 10 a.m.; ...
A 39-year-old homeless man has been charged with two felonies after allegedly cutting another man with a knife Tuesday in downtown Lawrence. The man, Dau Cuiebet Jok, was taken into custody shortly before 9 p.m. in the 700 block of Vermont Street, where police had been dispatched to a ...
A Douglas County prosecutor on Tuesday vehemently objected to the bond being lowered for a 75-year-old man accused of molesting a young boy, telling the court that the man had confessed to sex crimes that are punishable by life in prison. Defendant Steven Braswell, of Lawrence, was in Judge ...
UPDATED 12:45 P.M. MAY 19 Storms that stretched across eastern Kansas on Monday night produced rain, high winds and some tornado warnings the region. Locally, there were several reports of wind damage following Monday night’s severe storms, which according to a personal weather station ...