A 57-year-old Lawrence man was found guilty Monday of aggravated indecent liberties with a child for a sex crime that occurred 10 years ago. The man, Scott W. Waisner, pleaded no contest to one count of aggravated indecent liberties with a child between 14 and 16 years old for an incident on ...
NBA player Terrence Shannon is reportedly preparing to sue the Douglas County District Attorney's Office and the Lawrence Police Department for malicious prosecution after Shannon was quickly acquitted of rape earlier this summer. Last year Shannon, then a player for the University of Illinois ...
A driver was arrested Friday evening after allegedly crashing into a car at a Lawrence restaurant, attempting to flee and then striking one of the car's passengers with his car. The initial incident occurred just before 7 p.m. in the parking lot of Domino's Pizza at 1008 W. 23rd St. Lawrence ...
GREAT BEND — More than 44 years after a nursing student was slain in her trailer home in central Kansas, her former neighbor has been sentenced to 10 to 25 years in prison for killing her. The investigation into the Jan. 24, 1980, shooting death of Mary Robin Walter, 23, of Great Bend, had ...
If you've ever been curious about how legal appeals are argued and heard, you'll have a convenient opportunity to find out on Tuesday, when judges from the Kansas Court of Appeals, which normally sits in Topeka, will hear a few cases at the University of Kansas. A three-judge panel from the ...
A man's preliminary hearing for attempted murder began dramatically Friday with the alleged victim, before the judge even took the bench, claiming loudly and profanely to the gallery that she was never going to testify and begging repeatedly to leave. She nevertheless was called as the first ...