Updated at 6:29 p.m., Wednesday, July 15, 2026. A Lawrence father of four accused of sexually abusing two girls during sleepovers at his home years ago was convicted Wednesday on two of three counts. Jordey M. McTaggart was found guilty on one count of aggravated indecent liberties with a child and one count of rape. The jury found him not guilty on a second charge of aggravated indecent liberties with a ...
Updated at 6:46 p.m. on Tuesday, July 14, 2026. Two 15-year-old girls on Tuesday testified that a Lawrence man sexually abused them several years ago during sleepovers at his home, and one of them told the jury that she didn't report the abuse until last year because she was afraid she wouldn't have been believed and would have been beaten by her own father. The testimony came Tuesday during the trial of ...
A Douglas County jury has been selected to hear the case of a Lawrence man accused of sexually abusing two young girls during sleepovers at his home several years ago. On Monday, a jury of seven men and seven women, including two alternates, heard an opening argument from prosecutor David Melton that characterized defendant Jordey M. McTaggart as a man who lusted after his children's playmates and sexually ...
A young man was summoned to appear on Friday in Douglas County District Court to face charges that he sold wristbands to underage people so that they could drink alcohol in January, when two people were shot at The Hawk bar, one fatally. The young man, Hunter J. Noravong, is listed in court records as having been born in 2006 and as residing in Shawnee Mission. According to his LinkedIn page, he's a computer ...
A local actor's death in a head-on collision last year was caused by a driver who was texting, speeding and under the influence of drugs or alcohol, according to a lawsuit filed in Douglas County District Court by the actor's husband. Zachary Grant, the husband of actor Louise ImMasche, is suing the driver, Eliseo J. Munoz Jr., and the driver's father, Eliseo M. Munoz Sr., for multiple counts of negligence and ...
Updated at 6:05 p.m. Thursday, July 9, 2026 They thought Kenneth Soap was a close friend, a good guy. But "he had everyone fooled," a 36-year-old woman told Judge Amy Hanley on Thursday. He wasn't a good guy at all. He was a serial rapist who took pleasure in violating women while they were unconscious, grotesquely filming the assaults and filing the videos in folders bearing their names. The woman said she ...