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Teen pleads guilty to charges connected with fatal Hawk shooting
An Atchison teenager charged in connection with the fatal January shooting at the Hawk pleaded guilty Thursday to three charges of aggravated assault and to one count of attempted trafficking of contraband while in custody.
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KC person dead after stabbing in downtown Lawrence; suspect at large
A 20-year-old man from Kansas City is dead after an overnight stabbing near 7th and Massachusetts streets in downtown Lawrence, according to police.
Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
Judge temporarily reinstates transgender Lawrence woman’s driver’s license
A Douglas County judge has temporarily reinstated a Lawrence transgender woman and Army veteran’s license that was invalidated by an anti-transgender state law.
Jacob Rice / Lawrence Times
Blake Glover appointed to fill Douglas County District Court judge vacancy
Gov. Laura Kelly has appointed current Judge Pro Tem Blake Glover as the next Douglas County District Court judge.
Jacob Rice / Lawrence Times
Lawrence man gets 2 life sentences for 2022 double murder, attempted murder of police
A Douglas County judge on Thursday sentenced a man to two consecutive life prison terms for the murder of two men and the attempted murder and assault of police officers.
Kansas professor falsely accused of espionage wants university to pay for firing, harm to reputation
An anonymous tip accusing a Chinese-American chemist and researcher of espionage spurred KU into action, notifying the Department of Justice and building a case against its own employee, Feng “Franklin” Tao said in a lawsuit.
Nathan Kramer / Lawrence Times
How to get help from Douglas County’s Tenant Eviction Defense pilot program
Douglas County’s Tenant Eviction Defense pilot program has served 37 people since launching in June, and the legal service providers running it are taking more support requests from renters facing eviction.
Jacob Rice / Lawrence Times
Former Lawrence school district para charged with child sex crimes will face jury trial
A former Lawrence school district paraeducator was bound over for trial for charges related to allegedly grooming and inappropriately touching a minor and possessing images of child sexual abuse.
Kansas judge says decision to strike abortion restrictions not ‘even a close call’
A Kansas judge took a sledgehammer to a slate of abortion restrictions dating back to 1997, ruling the state came up short in arguing the Kansas Legislature should be able to impose waiting periods, mandate abortion reversal disclosures and require doctors to obtain patients’ reasons for seeking an abortion.
Jacob Rice/Lawrence Times
Man deemed unfit for trial in Lawrence woman’s stabbing death, will be treated at Larned
Aaron Wright was set to stand trial this week in the stabbing death of a Lawrence woman, but his competency evaluation prompted a Douglas County judge to find that he is unfit for trial and needs treatment at Larned State Hospital first.
Kansas Supreme Court declines to take emergency appeal of election law
The Kansas Supreme Court declined an expedited review of lower court decisions temporarily blocking enforcement of a state law that repeals the three-day grace period for mail-in ballots.
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