A Douglas County judge has completely sealed, rather than redact, the arrest affidavit of a man accused of raping a client at a Lawrence massage business, meaning that the public can have no information about why police believed they had probable cause to arrest the man.
Joshua Salazar, a 32-year-old massage therapist, was charged earlier this summer with raping a 19-year-old woman at Lawrence Thai Massage, 951 ...
A 45-year-old massage therapist has been charged with three more sex crimes, in addition to the 11 he was already facing.
The Douglas County District Attorney's Office on Monday filed a second amended complaint charging Aaron P. Borger, who worked at Baldwin City's Om Grown Yoga & Wellness Collective, with one additional count of rape and two additional counts of sexual battery. The new charges involve ...
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 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 ...
