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 ...
A man was found deceased last week in a home following a lengthy incident to which dozens of Lawrence police officers responded.
Police spokeswoman Laura McCabe told the Journal-World on Monday that officers were called on Wednesday to the 3500 block of Prairie Clover Court about a person armed with a shotgun who was potentially involved in a crime.
Officers heard shots fired at some point and evacuated some ...
For the second time since he was charged last summer with murder, a defendant has been ordered to undergo a competency evaluation to see if he is fit to stand trial.
Douglas County Judge Amy Hanley has ordered the defendant, Aaron Blake Wright, who is accused in the stabbing death of 35-year-old Jina Reyes-Woehler, to undergo a competency evaluation by Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center.
Generally, a ...
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 ...
