Four transgender men and one intersex woman on Tuesday told a Douglas County judge how Kansas’ anti-trans law known as SB 244 has negatively impacted their lives - forcing them to surrender their driver’s licenses, to problematically use certain bathrooms, to live in fear of being outed and to generally feel like second-class citizens.
The plaintiffs, who are suing the State of Kansas, variously described ...
A Douglas County jury on Tuesday found a 64-year-old man guilty of lewd and lascivious behavior after several witnesses testified that the man had publicly masturbated at an apartment complex's swimming pool in the presence of a minor.
Jay Janicke's attorneys from the Public Defenders Office had tried to persuade the jury of six men and six women that Janicke had innocently been "adjusting himself" while he was ...
The state says the defendant was masturbating at a pool in front of a minor, but his attorneys claim he was innocently "adjusting himself."
If a Douglas County jury believes prosecutor Adam Carey and the four witnesses he put on the stand Monday, defendant Jay Janicke will be convicted of a felony for a lewd and lascivious act on June 20, 2022, at the swimming pool of The Rockland apartment complex on West ...
The State of Kansas spent millions of dollars prosecuting an innocent woman and subsequently defending itself against her wrongful conviction lawsuit, and now taxpayers may be on the hook for millions more as a judge decides whether the state also has to pay her attorneys more than $4.5 million in fees — an amount that could have been under $25,000 had the state not aggressively fought the claim for ...
Updated at 3:10 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 24
A speech pathologist who was scheduled to stand trial on multiple counts of sexually abusing children at Prairie Park Elementary School was found dead at his Lawrence home Thursday morning.
The Lawrence Police Department said it responded to the home of accused sex offender Mark Gridley on Greever Terrace just before 7:30 a.m. and found him dead.
"Gridley was found ...
"He didn't wake up wanting to kill my dad, but he did," 16-year-old Kate Schupp told a judge Thursday morning.
Kate was with her father, Skip Schupp, in his 1965 Ford truck on July 18, 2025, when Zachary Odom, high on methadone, recklessly plowed his Ford Focus straight into them, killing Skip and seriously injuring her.
Kate, then 15, phoned her mother, Shelley, and answered "yes" to the hardest question ...
