Chris Conde

Douglas County is home to numerous parks to toss a Frisbee but these parks have dedicated disc golf courses for a real challenge and for competitions. In Lawrence • The city’s 18-hole disc golf course resides in the center of Lawrence at Centennial Park, 600 Rockledge Road. It’s easy enough to find if you keep […]

If you’re heading east out of Lawrence on Kansas Highway 10, you might have noticed a little patch of water just off the highway with a ramp sticking out of it and a sign that says “Crown Lake.” If you blink, you’ll miss it. But the lake and its resident, MoKan Ski Club, have been […]

Two women have been charged in connection with a shooting in downtown Lawrence in April that damaged the windows of a local business. The women, Demetria Myerick Warner Wooden, 30, of Lawrence, and Lakeisha Breeann Warner Bass, 36, of Raymore, Missouri, are each charged with one misdemeanor count of discharging a firearm within the city […]

A young woman has been charged with arson in connection with an incident that allegedly led to a shooting at a Lawrence residence by the woman’s mother. The woman charged with felony arson, Jayda Renae Kelly Neal, 20, of Lee’s Summit, Missouri, is the daughter of Natasha Renae Neal, 45, who faces charges in the […]

An Oskaloosa man was ordered to stand trial on Wednesday in Douglas County District Court after a 15-year-old girl testified that he contacted her on social media and asked her to be his “sugar baby” before he took her to a hotel in Lawrence to sexually assault her. Kenneth John McClelland, 30, is charged with […]

Two Lawrence patrol service dogs placed at the Shawnee County Sheriff’s Office K9 Games on Sunday in Topeka, and a Lawrence Police Department spokeswoman said they “had a blast” performing for the crowd. The second annual K9 Games featured 11 teams, each consisting of a dog and their law enforcement handler, from northeast Kansas law […]

Lawrence police arrested a man on Tuesday after a disturbance initially reported as an assault with an AR-15 style rifle. The weapon turned out to be a paintball gun, police determined. Just before 1 p.m. on Tuesday, officers rushed to the parking garage next to the Lawrence Public Library, in the 700 block of Vermont […]

A man who refused to surrender his hatchet last year when entering The Village and who terrorized staff by smashing an office window was sentenced to two years of probation on Wednesday. The man, Jesse Lee Green, 39, was originally charged in Douglas County District Court with one felony count of aggravated robbery, one felony […]

Mary Kay Howe has been typing out the record in Douglas County courtrooms for nearly 50 years now. But there was a time in the ’70s when it looked like she’d be leaving the profession in record time instead. Howe, who retired from Douglas County District Court this past week, told the Journal-World about her […]

A Lawrence woman has been charged in Johnson County with distributing a drug that allegedly caused a 53-year-old woman’s death. Ellana Nicole Graham, 23, is charged in Johnson County District Court with one felony count of distributing a controlled substance causing death. The charge is in connection with the death of Cherie Williams, 53, of […]