The cellphone of a man charged in Douglas County with raping a 9-year-old contained explicit videos of the child and more than 175 internet searches related to pornography of grown men abusing children, according to the recently released arrest affidavit in the case.
The man, Tyrone Gipson Jr., 42, was arrested in Topeka on Feb. 21 on charges of rape and aggravated criminal sodomy for incidents that allegedly ...
The Lawrence Police Department is asking a Douglas County district judge to quash a subpoena for its investigative file on a speech pathologist accused of child molestation at a Lawrence elementary school.
LPD says, in a motion filed Wednesday, that releasing its full file on Mark Gridley to parties in a civil lawsuit would potentially interfere with the current criminal prosecution of Gridley by the Douglas ...
Updated at 4:18 p.m. Thursday, June 5
The dean of business at Haskell Indian Nations University has been recommended to serve as the university's acting president, the Journal-World has learned.
According to a source familiar with the situation, Mackie Moore, of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, was recommended by faculty during an emergency meeting Tuesday of the university's faculty.
"Director Tony Dearman ...
Theatre Lawrence is ending its season with what Mary Doveton calls a perfect beginning to summer: “Escape to Margaritaville.”
It’s a jukebox musical — directed by Doveton — featuring the biggest hits of the late tropical troubador Jimmy Buffett, including “Margaritaville,” of course, “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere,” “Why Don’t We Get Drunk” and other tipsy takes on life and how best to ...
As Jeff Lewis worked on his dock at Lone Star Lake on Sunday, something half-submerged in the water caught his eye.
"I kept looking over there, going 'What is that?'" he said. "So I went over closer, and then I saw what it was": a great blue heron.
At first he thought it might still be alive, and his heart pounded with the necessity to save it, but then he realized that it was dead, and he saw the reason why: ...
With lots of rain expected in coming days, Lawrence residents lucked out Saturday morning with near perfect conditions for honoring their loved ones at area cemeteries.
Green grass, blue skies and a perfect 70 degrees greeted them as they laid flowers and other decorations — balloons, photos, crosses, candles and various ornaments — on graves.
The thousands of deceased military veterans at cemeteries in ...
