Kim Callahan

The cybersecurity incident that struck public computer systems in the City of Eudora and the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office was foreign ransomware that first hit the Eudora Police Department’s system, the city’s recently dismissed IT administrator said. The attack — by a hacking group out of Eastern Europe or Russia — encrypted all of the police […]

A man began serving 60 days of “shock time” Tuesday as part of his punishment for a pair of felonies against a 14-year-old girl two years ago. The man, Mark B. Lee, was originally charged with rape, indecent liberties with a child and aggravated intimidation of a witness connected to incidents in the spring of […]

Updated at 5:10 p.m. Monday, Aug. 17, 2026 A dull and dingy wall in downtown Lawrence is now colorful and inviting, thanks to local Girl Scouts who spent a good part of the past year planning and painting a mural at the site. Troop 2856 gathered Sunday to officially unveil their contribution to Lawrence’s cityscape: […]

Updated at 5:42 p.m. Monday, Aug. 17, 2026 A Douglas County judge on Monday granted a Lawrence transgender woman the temporary restoration of her driver’s license after the State of Kansas invalidated it earlier this year under a controversial anti-trans law known as SB 244. “We’re pleased with the judge’s ruling,” the woman’s attorney, David […]

A maintenance man for an apartment complex in southwest Lawrence reportedly shot and killed a group of raccoons in the complex’s dumpster — in front of children — and now could face charges of animal cruelty and unlawful discharge of a firearm. The incident occurred Friday at Village at West End, a complex at 4410 […]

A 33-year-old musician pleaded guilty Monday in a revenge porn case and is voluntarily leaving the United States as part of a plea agreement with the Douglas County District Attorney’s Office. The defendant, Di Wang, was convicted of one count of breach of privacy, a felony, involving a University of Kansas student who was his […]

Updated at 5:24 p.m. Tuesday, June 16, 2026 The illicit drug K2 was mailed to the Douglas County Jail, and inmates there used lithium batteries from computer tablets to light the substance, according to allegations in a recently released arrest affidavit. Two inmates, Caiden Clem, 19, and Temujin Jernigan, 24, have been charged with the […]

Three of the seven people seeking to fill a vacant seat on the Kansas Supreme Court are from Lawrence, and you can watch their live job interviews on Thursday. The Lawrence candidates will have interviews in Topeka as follows: Douglas County District Court Judge Carl Folsom III at 10 a.m.; Douglas County District Court Judge […]

Two Douglas County Jail inmates charged with gun crimes and awaiting trial are now being charged with trafficking contraband in a correctional facility. Eighteen-year-old Caiden Clem, who has been charged with four counts of aggravated assault and one count of criminal possession of a weapon by a felon in the Jan. 17 shooting at The […]

Multiple fire department trucks responded just after noon Monday to an incident at Warren-McElwain Mortuary. Battalion Chief Aaron Flory said Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical units were called to a structure fire at the funeral home, 120 W. 13th St., but when they arrived they detected only an odor of smoke inside the building and located […]