Nine-month-old Oliver "Ollie" Ortiz died of natural causes, not child abuse: That's what a forensic pathologist hired by the Douglas County District Attorney's Office said almost three years ago, and that's what she said again in testimony Tuesday — in the process, heaping implicit scorn on ...
A man who pleaded no contest to lesser charges after originally being charged with raping a 9-year-old girl was sentenced on Tuesday to probation in Douglas County District Court. Judge Amy Hanley sentenced Tyrone Gipson Jr. to a total of 30 months in prison for two counts of aggravated ...
Nine years after 9-month-old Oliver "Ollie" Ortiz died at a Eudora day care, the question of what killed him — natural causes or child abuse — remains legally unsettled, as does the innocence of the day care worker originally accused of murdering him. That woman, Carrody Buchhorn, is ...
UPDATED 3:10 p.m. Saturday The Kansas Highway Patrol is investigating a crash that killed one person and critically injured another in southwest Lawrence on Friday night. Douglas County deputies, Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical and Consolidated Fire District No. 1 were called to the ...
A portion of the South Lawrence Trafficway (Kansas Highway 10/U.S. 40) was closed Friday night after a two-vehicle crash left one person dead and other seriously injured, the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office said.. According to an email from DGSO spokesman George Diepenbrock, the section of ...
Police detained a man allegedly involved in a domestic dispute after he was found walking in the middle of Kansas Highway 10, forcing traffic to swerve around him. Officers were called around 10 a.m. Friday to 3250 Michigan St. about a "disturbed man with a bat," according to a social media ...