Lawrence police now allege that eight children, between the ages of 6 and 11, were victimized by a speech pathologist at Prairie Park Elementary over the course of two days in early February. In a news release on Thursday, Sgt. Drew Fennelly of the Lawrence Police Department said a new ...

Updated at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 27 A Douglas County judge on Thursday sentenced a former Lawrence Community Shelter resident to 57 months in prison in the strangulation death of another shelter resident last summer. But before Judge Amy Hanley announced her sentence, defendant George ...

A Texas man pleaded guilty on Thursday to violently attacking two women and killing a cat as part of a deal in which the Douglas County District Attorney's Office dismissed rape and sodomy charges. The defendant, Aaron Michael Davidson, 23, of Tolar, Texas, was originally charged with one ...

Police arrested a 43-year-old Lawrence man on Wednesday afternoon after he allegedly hit a police vehicle and then led officers on a chase down Sixth Street, according to the police department's social media. The department said the incident began when officers attempted to contact the man in ...

A Douglas County judge on Wednesday sentenced a Topeka man to two years in prison in connection with his fifth DUI. The man, Dustin Lee Welch, 45, had indicated recently that he wanted to withdraw from a plea agreement because one of the sheriff’s deputies involved in his case had been ...

The Lawrence Police Department opened registration on Wednesday for its youth and teen summer camps. Lawrence Police Camp and Teen Police Academy give kids a chance to meet officers, to learn about investigative techniques and to see how law enforcement works in the community. The camps are ...