Updated at 6:19 p.m. Friday, Aug. 29
Lawrence police on Friday arrested a 63-year-old Lawrence man in connection with a homicide after a 35-year-old woman’s body was found behind a vacant building in the 1800 block of Massachusetts Street.
Sgt. Drew Fennelly said the victim, whose name was not provided, appeared to have been stabbed multiple times. Police were called to the scene at 7:22 a.m. Friday.
The ...
Updated at 12:02 p.m. Friday, Aug. 29
A majority of the Kansas Supreme Court has found that former Douglas County District Attorney Suzanne Valdez did not violate a state rule of professional conduct and will not be disciplined.
"A righteous decision was issued today by the Kansas Supreme Court," Valdez told the Journal-World via text after the court issued its 43-page opinion Friday in her favor.
The court ...
The deputy district attorney is no longer employed in the Douglas County District Attorney's Office, and indications are that it was not his choice to leave.
The Journal-World first learned that Deputy District Attorney David Greenwald no longer works for DA Dakota Loomis from sources close to the office, although the circumstances of his departure remain unclear. A person answering the phone at the office ...
The Lawrence school district denies that it was negligent in hiring, retaining and supervising a speech pathologist who is accused of molesting multiple students at Prairie Park Elementary School.
In the civil lawsuit filed in March on behalf of one of the children — a 6-year-old girl — the district had already denied that it was vicariously liable for sexual battery by pathologist Mark Gridley, who has now ...
While investigating a man's alleged sex crimes against children, Lawrence police found video evidence that the man had raped two women and sexually abused a dog, according to recently released arrest affidavits.
The Douglas County District Attorney's Office and the attorney for defendant Kenneth Wayne Soap had asked a judge to keep the affidavits from being seen by the public, as the Journal-World reported, but ...
Updated at 4:35 p.m. Friday, Aug. 22
A former Raintree Montessori School employee accused of inappropriately touching two preschoolers three years ago at the private school took a plea agreement on Friday and faces a sentence of more than 15 years in prison.
Mateo Clavel Wills, 22, pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated kidnapping and one count of aggravated indecent liberties with a child on Friday in ...
