When Kris Wilcoxson heard recently that Judge Sally Pokorny would be retiring on April 10, he made a beeline over to the courthouse to thank her. Pokorny had just wrapped up one of her final sessions of Behavioral Health Court, which she presided over in a multi-zippered black leather jacket ...
Two Hispanic construction workers on Thursday told a Douglas County judge that they still have nightmares about an armed and angry man assaulting them one summer morning two years ago as they worked. They thought the man, Craig Endecott, of Baldwin City, was going to kill them with his rifle, ...
The Lawrence Police Department on Wednesday announced that one of its officers died on April 3 and that the Douglas County Sheriff's Office is conducting an investigation, though "no foul play is suspected." In a news release, LPD said that 28-year-old Officer Zachary Garcia-Kerns honorably ...
Two young children are dead after their young sibling reportedly picked up a loaded, unsecured shotgun and fired, according to a news release from the Kansas Bureau of Investigation. The incident happened on March 28 in Brookville, which is in Ellsworth County about 20 miles southwest of ...
A 34-year-old man was convicted on Tuesday in Douglas County District Court of trying to kill his grandfather last summer by firing multiple bullets into his Lawrence residence. The defendant, Douglas Adam Speight, was originally charged with attempted first-degree murder in the June 3, 2025, ...
A Topeka gang member who was acquitted in a 2022 Douglas County shooting after he claimed self-defense has now been sentenced to five years in prison after being found guilty in federal court of illegally possessing machine guns. Daequan Rayton, 28, and three other men who federal authorities ...