Story updated at 6:57 p.m. July 20, 2018: Key — and graphic — evidence was presented Friday at the trial of a day care worker charged with murdering a baby in her care. The court viewed photos of the deceased infant at the hospital, then photos of major internal injuries that were not ...
Story updated 7:12 p.m. July 19, 2018: There were only two women caring for 9-month-old Oliver Ortiz at a Eudora home day care the day he died. One of those women testified under oath Thursday that she did not hurt Oliver. Gina Brunton, who owned and ran Sunshine Kids Group Daycare Home out ...
Story updated 7:13 p.m. July 18, 2018: Wednesday morning in Douglas County District Court, prosecutor C.J. Rieg opened a cardboard box, pulled out a tiny mannequin wearing a onesie and set it on the witness stand. She asked Eudora Fire & EMS Department Chief Ken Keiter to demonstrate ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours. Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Tuesday to 6 a.m. Wednesday and includes 176 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
Abdul Jalil K. Hussein allegedly terrorized his own mother to the point she feared for her life — most recently chopping through her locked front door with an ax, then shooting out her TV when he could not find her. He allegedly terrorized his neighbors, who reported seeing him wearing body ...
A Douglas County jury heard tearful testimony Tuesday from the mother of a 9-month-old boy who died at a Eudora day care center nearly two years ago. Kaylen Ortiz, the mother of Oliver Ortiz, cried on the witness stand as she recounted the phone call she received around 3:30 p.m. on Sept. 29, ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours. Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Monday to 6 a.m. Tuesday and includes 190 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
A man and a woman who fled Lawrence police overnight crashed on Kansas Highway 10 but were able to get out of their vehicle and escape on foot. The chase began about 2:55 a.m., when a Lawrence police officer tried to pull over a black passenger vehicle for a stop sign violation at 13th Street ...
First, Tommy J. May pistol-whipped Marzetta Yarbrough on the head twice, she told police. Next he told her, “Now I’m going to finish you.” Then May allegedly shot her in the face. May, 58, is charged with attempted murder in the July 2 double shooting that injured Yarbrough and a man ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours. Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Sunday to 6 a.m. Monday and includes 173 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
Story updated at 5:35 p.m. Monday, July 16, 2018. The murder trial of a woman accused of killing a baby she cared for at a Eudora home day care opened Monday with jury selection. The trial for Carrody M. Buchhorn, 44, of Eudora, is scheduled to last a week and a half, running through July 25 ...
Some Lawrence residents’ home surveillance video captured footage of a man setting fire to the outside of their house this weekend. After the residents shared that video with authorities, a suspect was arrested the following day on suspicion of aggravated arson, jail records show. The ...
It’s now approaching a year since former Lawrence mayor Jeremy Farmer was sentenced to a stay in federal prison for stealing money from the local food bank he once led. That means it’s about time for him to be getting out. I confirmed last week that Farmer is scheduled to be freed on ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours. Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Saturday to 6 a.m. Sunday and includes 196 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours. Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Friday to 6 a.m. Saturday and includes 199 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
A teen who reportedly was arrested with a gun in his backpack at Free State High School is scheduled for a trial soon. The teen is charged as a juvenile with criminal use of weapons for allegedly possessing a firearm with a barrel less than 12 inches long, a misdemeanor, according to the ...
A Lawrence man whose social media accounts included dozens of photos of nude or partially dressed girls, police said, has been convicted of sexually exploiting multiple children. Jonathan D. Micco, 28, pleaded no contest to three counts of sexual exploitation of a child, all felonies, on ...
In an unusual step, a judge went to the jail in person to hold court for an allegedly violent and mentally ill inmate this week, instead of having the inmate transported to the courthouse. At the hearing, Douglas County District Court Judge James McCabria ordered a psychological evaluation to ...
Firefighters put out a fire inside a trailer home Friday in Lawrence. Smoke coming from the mobile home was reported shortly before 11:30 a.m. in the trailer community at 100 Arkansas Street, said Division Chief and Fire Marshal James King of Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical. When ...
Story updated at 7:30 p.m. July 13, 2018. The results of a community survey indicate that most Lawrence residents of color think Lawrence police are biased against their community. The City of Lawrence commissioned Allegro Training & Consulting to conduct the survey and related analysis ...