Dakota Loomis, who unseated the incumbent district attorney in August's Democratic primary, handily defeated his Republican opponent Tuesday and will become Douglas County’s next DA in January. After his victory became apparent early in the evening — with 86% of precincts reporting he was ...

Douglas County prosecutors on Tuesday failed to convince a jury that a Lawrence man attempted to murder his pregnant wife during an argument in July. Prosecutors also failed to prove that Dustin Ian Lane, 39, committed the crimes of attempted voluntary manslaughter, aggravated intimidation of ...

Motorists going to the polls, to work or anywhere else were facing traffic jams through North Lawrence on Tuesday morning. As of about 8 a.m. on Tuesday, southbound traffic was backed up from the Kansas River bridge in downtown to past the Interstate 70 overpass in North Lawrence. The nearly ...

An attorney representing a man accused of making a sex video of a woman without her knowledge told a Douglas County judge Monday that he planned to argue for dismissal because of some “unusual facts.” The accused, Garrett Christopher Lynch, 26, of Kansas City, Missouri, is charged in ...

A Douglas County jury on Monday heard a frantic 911 call from a woman who said her husband was trying to kill her, but when the woman herself took the stand, jurors heard an entirely different story: The couple simply had a heated argument, the woman testified, and she was "not really sure" how ...

A man was taken to the hospital early Monday morning after another man is alleged to have slashed his arm with a knife, according to Lawrence police. Officers responded to a disturbance around 3:15 a.m. to 3250 Michigan St., where a 56-year-old man reported that a 46-year-old man had cut his ...