When Lt. Myrone Grady appeared in a Topeka courtroom accused of hitting a man while off duty at a kids' basketball game, the gallery was so packed with his supporters that the judge said he'd find a bigger courtroom for the next hearing. That was heartening to Grady — or “OG,” as he’s widely known in Lawrence, short for “Officer Grady” — as were the hundreds of social media comments attesting to ...
A wrongful conviction trial that was expected to conclude Thursday will spill into next week after the plaintiff’s attorney spent the entire day attempting to discredit a doctor who concluded that a baby had died from abuse, not natural causes. During an often tense six hours, Dr. Terra Frazier, a child abuse pediatrician from Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, stood firmly by her findings that ...
Child abuse is what killed a 9-month-old boy at a Eudora day care, not natural causes, according to a child abuse pediatrician who testified Wednesday at the wrongful conviction trial of Carrody Buchhorn, a day care worker who was accused of murdering the baby nine years ago. The opinion of pediatrician Terra Frazier, a witness for the state, directly contradicted the testimony of forensic pathologist Jane ...
Updated at 4 p.m. Friday, Nov. 7, 2025 A registered sex offender being held on a bond of $1 million is again asking the court to give him an own-recognizance bond or "a bond he can financially afford" — this time so that he can get treatment from his primary care physician and "relieve the Douglas County Jail of that burden." The defendant, Kenneth John McClelland, 30, of Oskaloosa, stated in a motion to the ...
A man who was acquitted of two sex crimes in September but convicted of furnishing alcohol to a teen girl and unlawfully hosting minors consuming alcohol was sentenced on Wednesday to six months in jail, which was suspended to probation. The defendant, Wyatt Farrow, who was 19 at the time of the February 2022 incident, had faced two felony counts of aggravated criminal sodomy, two counts of furnishing alcohol ...
Updated at 5:35 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 5 Douglas County jurors on Wednesday found a 33-year-old Lawrence man guilty of rape and aggravated criminal sodomy — in a case where they had to determine whether the woman’s silent conduct amounted to consent and whether she had been overcome by fear. A jury took about four hours to determine that Miquel Brown was guilty of the two felonies stemming from an Oct. 27, ...