Douglas County Sheriff Jay Armbrister has launched a new podcast focused on connecting with constituents and giving them a look behind the badge.
The podcast is called “A View from 100,” which is a reference to the sheriff’s radio dispatch number. The podcast is set to air about once a month on various online listening platforms and in its video form on YouTube.
“I want the listener to hear the ...
In isolation, children can suffer at the hands of abusers. But in the process of bringing those abusers to justice, isolation can play a key role too.
Children who have been the victim of sexual abuse or other trauma need a place to tell their stories in a protected environment, removed from the eyes and ears of anyone who might hurt them while advocates and law enforcement watch from afar.
Locally, the ...
A Lawrence woman's routine drive home from an appointment turned horrifying last winter, she told police, when her ex suddenly came out from hiding in the back of her car and began threatening to kill her and her family.
The man, Chad Everett Cline, 49, of Topeka, is then alleged to have stalked the woman, threatened her and destroyed property over the next month, according to a series of affidavits filed in ...
Two people testified on Wednesday about the fear and injury they suffered at the hands of a Eudora man; one of them was a Lawrence police officer who required reconstructive surgery after her nose was broken in the attack.
The defendant, Jeffrey Montgomery Smith, 61, is charged with one count of aggravated battery against a law enforcement officer and one count of criminal threat against another individual, ...
The search for a 74-year-old Lawrence woman has expanded into neighboring Johnson County after she was reported missing nearly three weeks ago.
Wanda Dyer is a 5-foot-2 African American woman with signs of dementia who has short gray hair and was last seen wearing a black coat with a pink lining, or possibly a hoodie, and multicolored pants. Police are asking people who’ve seen her to call dispatchers at ...
Overland Park — A Lawrence attorney on Tuesday argued to a traveling panel of appellate judges that a Douglas County judge made a big mistake when he dismissed a lawsuit by a group of Lawrence landlords over the city's new ordinance forbidding discrimination based on the source of income.
The landlords had wanted Douglas County District Judge Mark Simpson to declare the ordinance unconstitutional, but Simpson ...
