Douglas County will soon have a new face greeting individuals appearing in District Court. Douglas County District Court Chief Judge James McCabria recently announced that the court’s pro tem judge, James T. George, plans to retire at the end of the year. George has served as the pro tem division judge since 2008, he said. The pro tem judge is often the first judge individuals see in the court. The judge ...
A Eudora woman’s 2018 murder conviction will now be considered by the Kansas Supreme Court. But it may be months before that happens. The state’s highest court has granted a petition for review from the Douglas County District Attorney’s Office, which is appealing a Kansas Court of Appeals ruling earlier this year to overturn Carrody Buchhorn’s murder conviction. The DA's office is seeking to have the ...
A Lawrence man was arrested on suspicion of a DUI early Tuesday morning after he allegedly almost struck sheriff’s deputies while they were conducting a field sobriety test in a separate DUI incident. George Diepenbrock, a spokesman for the sheriff’s office, said in an email to the Journal-World that deputies were conducting a field sobriety test on a driver who had been stopped heading westbound in the 300 ...
A former Haskell Indian Nations University housing supervisor has been convicted of sex crimes for incidents against two children that spanned a decade, and he could face about 10 years in prison. Thomas A. Spotted Horse, 64, entered a plea deal last month and is scheduled to be sentenced next week in Douglas County District Court, which will bring the long-running case to a close. According to a copy of the ...
A Lawrence man accused of sex crimes against children who were living in his residential properties is facing criminal charges in Douglas County. But if, or when, he may be formally charged with those crimes remains to be seen because he is currently in federal prison for an unrelated child sex crime. Mark D. Strand, 69, was convicted of knowingly attempting to coerce and entice a minor to engage in sexual ...
The next Lawrence school board meeting will now be a week later than originally scheduled. The school board approved a proposal to amend its meeting schedule Friday morning to push back the date of its next regular meeting to Nov. 29. The board was scheduled to meet Monday, Nov. 22, which follows the board’s traditional schedule of meeting on the second and fourth Monday of each month. However, last week the ...