Campaign finance reports reveal that the incumbent leads fundraising in the race for district attorney, and Capt. Doug Woods leads in fundraising in the race for sheriff.
Newcomers Cooper Overstreet and Suzanne Valdez are vying for the district attorney nomination against incumbent Charles Branson.
All longtime employees of the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, Lt. Jay Armbrister, Deputy Dale Flory and ...
More than four months after stay-at-home orders started to go into effect toward the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in Kansas, the Douglas County Jail has had no positive cases, despite not currently requiring all inmates to wear masks at all times.
Jenn Hethcoat, public information officer for the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, said the agency has had no employees reporting a positive COVID-19 test ...
Candidates for Douglas County district attorney took questions from their colleagues and peers during a forum Thursday evening, with less than two weeks remaining before the Aug. 4 Democratic primary.
The Douglas County Bar Association forum, moderated by bar president Andy Bauch, asked several individual questions of candidates Cooper Overstreet, Suzanne Valdez and incumbent Charles Branson. Bauch, who is an ...
Story updated at 2:41 p.m. Wednesday
A Eudora man facing several felonies in Douglas County has been indicted on one federal count of robbery.
Raymond Paul Stilley, 31, was indicted Wednesday on a federal robbery charge, according to a news release from the office of Stephen McAllister, U.S. attorney for the District of Kansas.
Stilley’s indictment alleges that on July 12, he forced two people to provide ...
Murder is the third leading cause of death for American Indian and Alaska Native women and girls ages 15-24, according to National Vital Statistics Reports from 2018.
That was among statistics that candidates for Douglas County sheriff heard during a forum hosted by Jennifer Scotten, of Native American/Indigenous Voters in Lawrence-DGCO Kansas, and Tai Edwards, of the northeast chapter of Women for Kansas, ...
Two co-defendants have been sentenced in a case in which the victim told police that three fellow meth users accused him of “snitching” and held him in a basement for hours while they threatened him with a switchblade and a smoking-hot hammer.
All three suspects reportedly smoked methamphetamine at the beginning of their interrogation of the victim, during which they blamed him for pending drug charges ...
