Two Lawrence-based entities are facing criticism in connection with a brutal rape case in which the rapist’s sentence was reduced by 30 years and victims contend that they weren’t notified.
The Douglas County District Attorney’s Office and the University of Kansas Law School Project for Innocence and Post Conviction Remedies are both facing questions after the sentence of rapist Cory Elkins, who was ...
Updated at 4:45 p.m. Thursday, May 4
The State of Kansas is asking that a Lawrence woman’s request for compensation for wrongful conviction and imprisonment be denied — even after an expert for the prosecution determined that the child the woman was accused of killing had died not from homicide but from natural causes.
The woman, Carrody Buchhorn, is seeking — pursuant to state law — nearly $400,000 ...
A new law targeting transgender Kansans is set to go into effect on July 1, and Lawrence attorney David Brown — calling it dangerous, cruel and ignorant — is determined to do everything in his power to stop it.
The law, often referred to as the bathroom bill — a misnomer, Brown said, because it restricts so much more than restroom use — requires that when a regulation applies distinguishing men’s and ...
Updated at 3:45 p.m. Monday, April 24
City of Lawrence leaders have begun informing community members staying at the city-sanctioned support site for those experiencing homelessness that a new safety measure — which includes a strictly enforced no-visitors policy and a signed agreement — will take effect Monday.
The new measure is designed around nationally recognized best practices and came about after ...
Miranda Klugesherz, the star of Theatre Lawrence’s “Silent Sky,” expects that audience members will walk away from the show “feeling not just happy but having learned something.” And that, she said, is “the best kind of theater.”
Klugesherz herself certainly learned a lot playing the role of Henrietta Leavitt, who made one of the greatest breakthroughs in science at a time when women were largely ...
Janis Guyot had to turn off a legislative hearing she had been listening to Wednesday because, as with many recent hearings targeting transgender people, “the hatefulness and ignorance” were too much to bear.
“It made me sick to my stomach,” she said of the hearing that ultimately led to a ban on transgender girls participating in sports in Kansas.
But that moment of revulsion and others like it will ...
