In June of last year, Douglas County District Judge Stacey Donovan gave probation to a 20-year-old man convicted of a sex crime against a child. As she departed from the state’s sentencing guidelines to do so, she noted that she was taking “a very large leap of faith.” That faith is now ...

Updated at 4:24 p.m. Monday, July 31 A resident of the city-supported campsite for the homeless in North Lawrence was arrested Sunday on suspicion of aggravated battery after he allegedly struck and seriously injured another man at the camp. Vance Tyler Swallow, 38, a camper at the site, was ...

TOPEKA — In 2018, former Lawrence Police Officer Sutagee Anglin got into an argument with his wife, and she was worried he was going to become more violent. She tried calling her daughter, hoping she and the two children in the home could get picked up and driven away from the situation, ...

A Douglas County jury on Thursday returned a verdict of not guilty in the case of a Lawrence man who was accused of trying to shoot his ex-girlfriend's new partner. Steven Carl Drake, 48, was ordered in January to stand trial on a charge of attempted first-degree murder. He was accused of ...

A Douglas County judge has blocked the public from seeing information related to the arrest of a suspect who is accused of violently murdering a man whose body was found beneath a clump of bushes in downtown Lawrence. Judge Amy Hanley’s action came after the suspect’s attorney, John Kerns, ...

A Topeka woman suffered serious injuries Wednesday afternoon after her vehicle struck a power pole on U.S. Highway 40 just west of Lawrence, according to the Douglas County Sheriff's Office. The crash was reported at about 3:45 p.m. near the intersection of U.S. Highway 40 and East 767 Road, ...