The Douglas County sheriff proposed to a resident in September that he should file a petition to recall the district attorney after the resident was dissatisfied with a plea agreement in a sexual assault case.
That resident now says he indeed intends to try to remove the district attorney, Suzanne Valdez, from office after a rape charge involving a 10-year old victim was plea bargained down to an aggravated ...
The men who were charged with stealing a panel from the "Native Hosts" artwork at Spencer Museum of Art in 2021 are scheduled to give a public apology on Saturday.
The public apology was announced this week on social media by the First Nations Student Association at the University of Kansas. The post said that the student organization along with representatives from the Spencer and KU faculty and staff ...
A Eudora woman has been charged with a third DUI and multiple counts of assault after allegedly hitting a Eudora police car and other vehicles while leading police on a chase going the wrong direction on Kansas Highway 10.
The woman, Cody Lee Cullen, 42, faces four felony counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, one felony count of aggravated battery, felony DUI, transporting an open container and ...
A man has been charged in Douglas County District Court with attempted murder after allegedly trying to steer a vehicle in which he was a passenger off the road.
Jayce Tyler Ingham, 35, of Iola, is charged with two felony counts of attempted murder in the second degree and one count of misdemeanor criminal damage for breaking a vehicle window, according to charging documents, which listed the other two people ...
Updated at 4 p.m. Dec. 6, 2022
A 13-year-old girl who was shot to death Monday at her rural Baldwin City home was being mourned by friends and family across the community who were grappling with the violence that ended the life of the Bishop Seabury Academy eighth grader.
The Douglas County Sheriff's Office on Monday said that the girl, Hayden Koch, was one of two people found dead at the family home in the ...
A second man faces a felony charge in connection with vandalism of the ‘Native Hosts’ artwork at KU last year.
Josef Robert Keivan, 20, Burr Ridge, Illinois, is charged in Douglas County District Court with one felony count of criminal damage to the “Native Hosts” exhibit by Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds at the Spencer Museum of Art on Sept. 4, 2021, according to charging documents.
Keivan was ...