Nine years after 9-month-old Oliver "Ollie" Ortiz died at a Eudora day care, the question of what killed him — natural causes or child abuse — remains legally unsettled, as does the innocence of the day care worker originally accused of murdering him.
That woman, Carrody Buchhorn, is attempting to clear her name in a wrongful conviction trial — three years in the making — that finally began Monday ...
The theater community is in mourning after an area actor was killed in a car crash Friday night after a performance in Lawrence.
The 41-year-old actor, Louise ImMasche, of Kansas City, Missouri, has starred in numerous shows at Theatre Lawrence, including "White Christmas," "Little Shop of Horrors," “Priscilla, Queen of the Desert," "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" and "The Rocky Horror Show."
ImMasche had ...
A 29-year-old Tecumseh man accused of second-degree murder in Douglas County was booked into the Douglas County Jail this week.
The man, Zachary Ray Odom, has been charged with multiple crimes related to the death of Leonard "Skip" Schupp, 51, of Oskaloosa, after an alleged driving under the influence incident on July 18. In addition to the murder charge, Odom is accused of leaving the scene of a fatality ...
The Douglas County District Attorney's Office is asking a judge to keep secret the reasons of police for arresting a man in an armed robbery and assault case — a request that comes on the heels of the DA also asking for the plea agreement itself to be kept under wraps.
The reasons for the requested secrecy are unknown because such requests are themselves filed under seal.
As the Journal-World reported, the ...
A 42-year-old Topeka man was convicted Wednesday of two counts of sexual exploitation of a child after he pleaded no contest to the charges in Douglas County District Court.
In exchange for Jason Morrison's plea, which came just days before his scheduled trial, the state agreed to drop two counts of the more serious felony of aggravated human trafficking.
Morrison is believed to have no prior criminal history ...
A man who was accused of repeatedly stabbing a homeless woman in the head with a knife last spring was sentenced on Wednesday to more than 10 years in prison.
Marquise Zontae Bowens, 20, was originally charged with attempted second-degree murder in the May 15 incident after Lawrence police responded to Clinton Park near the intersection of West Sixth and Maine streets and found an injured 35-year-old woman. A ...
