A Eudora man who was originally charged with raping a woman after a party at his home last year pleaded no contest on Monday in Douglas County District Court to two counts of aggravated battery.
The man, Derek Sean Conner, 34, had faced one count of rape, a level one felony, in connection with an incident on Jan. 23, 2022, when a 26-year-old woman claimed he sexually assaulted her when she was incapable of ...
In 1975, Hercule Poirot’s obituary was published on the front page of The New York Times — an impressive feat for someone who had never actually been alive, but perhaps not as impressive as his ingenious detective work in “Murder on the Orient Express.”
Poirot’s sleuthing coup in the 1934 novel is still a fan favorite among the dozens of Agatha Christie tales that featured the cerebral Belgian ...
Updated at 2:18 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023
The attorney who filed a lawsuit for wrongful incarceration on behalf of Rontarus Washington Jr. against Douglas County and other defendants has acknowledged that a major factual claim in his lawsuit is wrong — namely that a homicide victim's estranged husband was arrested and charged in the case. That claim is false.
Attorney Larry G. Michel acknowledged in an ...
The name of a Lawrence woman who was accused of killing a baby at a Eudora day care and who underwent a yearslong ordeal maintaining her innocence has been added to the National Registry of Exonerations.
Carrody Buchhorn, whose long-running murder case was recently dropped by the Douglas County District Attorney's Office for lack of evidence, told the Journal-World Wednesday evening that she was "so happy" to ...
Updated at 4:50 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023
A student is in custody and hundreds of middle school students are grappling with the ordeal of having been evacuated from their Lawrence school Thursday after it was the target of a bomb threat.
The events — which ultimately turned up no explosive device — unfolded Thursday morning at West Middle School, 2700 Harvard Road, after a report of a written threat ...
Long before the Trump administration gave rise to the phrases “fake news” and “alternative facts,” the squishy — and often satiric — concepts of “truthiness” and “my truth” were adrift in the culture, denoting the quality of appearing to be true, or feeling true, while not necessarily being objective fact.
And long before those notions, there were truths that were famously held to be ...
