A Douglas County judge presiding over two lawsuits against the Lawrence school district related to allegations of sexual abuse at an elementary school denied the district's request to halt the civil proceedings until the criminal case is entirely completed.
Judge Catherine Theisen is overseeing two civil suits brought by separate child plaintiffs against the district, one filed on March 6 and one filed on March ...
A college student on Monday told a Douglas County jury that shortly after he left a bar one night last winter another young man jumped him, gouged his eyes and pulled him to the ground.
The 21-year-old student said that the man — defendant Hector Seeger, who is charged with the felony of aggravated battery — was an acquaintance from high school with whom he was not close. The reason for the alleged attack ...
When Lt. Myrone Grady appeared in a Topeka courtroom accused of hitting a man while off duty at a kids' basketball game, the gallery was so packed with his supporters that the judge said he'd find a bigger courtroom for the next hearing.
That was heartening to Grady — or “OG,” as he’s widely known in Lawrence, short for “Officer Grady” — as were the hundreds of social media comments attesting to ...
A wrongful conviction trial that was expected to conclude Thursday will spill into next week after the plaintiff’s attorney spent the entire day attempting to discredit a doctor who concluded that a baby had died from abuse, not natural causes.
During an often tense six hours, Dr. Terra Frazier, a child abuse pediatrician from Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, stood firmly by her findings that ...
Child abuse is what killed a 9-month-old boy at a Eudora day care, not natural causes, according to a child abuse pediatrician who testified Wednesday at the wrongful conviction trial of Carrody Buchhorn, a day care worker who was accused of murdering the baby nine years ago.
The opinion of pediatrician Terra Frazier, a witness for the state, directly contradicted the testimony of forensic pathologist Jane ...
Updated at 4 p.m. Friday, Nov. 7, 2025
A registered sex offender being held on a bond of $1 million is again asking the court to give him an own-recognizance bond or "a bond he can financially afford" — this time so that he can get treatment from his primary care physician and "relieve the Douglas County Jail of that burden."
The defendant, Kenneth John McClelland, 30, of Oskaloosa, stated in a motion to the ...
