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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Every time someone is arrested on a municipal offense and stays in the Douglas County Jail for more than four hours, the Lawrence Police Department is billed $287 a day. In 2027 that bill will be $301 a day.
"The impact on our budget has been significant," Lawrence Police Chief Rich Lockhart told the Journal-World.
That cost, which has increased dramatically over the past several years, has perplexed Lockhart ...
Updated at 5:48 p.m. July 6, 2026
A Douglas County judge has ruled that a woman accused of murdering a 9-month-old baby at a Eudora daycare 10 years ago was wrongfully convicted, and he has ordered that she be given a certificate of innocence, in addition to a lump sum payment of $368,000 and attorney fees.
The woman, Carrody Buchhorn, and her legal team have been in a yearslong fight to clear her name in the ...
