For the second time since he was charged last summer with murder, a defendant has been ordered to undergo a competency evaluation to see if he is fit to stand trial.
Douglas County Judge Amy Hanley has ordered the defendant, Aaron Blake Wright, who is accused in the stabbing death of 35-year-old Jina Reyes-Woehler, to undergo a competency evaluation by Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center.
Generally, a ...
A Douglas County judge has completely sealed, rather than redact, the arrest affidavit of a man accused of raping a client at a Lawrence massage business, meaning that the public can have no information about why police believed they had probable cause to arrest the man.
Joshua Salazar, a 32-year-old massage therapist, was charged earlier this summer with raping a 19-year-old woman at Lawrence Thai Massage, 951 ...
Updated at 6:29 p.m., Wednesday, July 15, 2026.
A Lawrence father of four accused of sexually abusing two girls during sleepovers at his home years ago was convicted Wednesday on two of three counts.
Jordey M. McTaggart was found guilty on one count of aggravated indecent liberties with a child and one count of rape. The jury found him not guilty on a second charge of aggravated indecent liberties with a ...
Updated at 6:46 p.m. on Tuesday, July 14, 2026.
Two 15-year-old girls on Tuesday testified that a Lawrence man sexually abused them several years ago during sleepovers at his home, and one of them told the jury that she didn't report the abuse until last year because she was afraid she wouldn't have been believed and would have been beaten by her own father.
The testimony came Tuesday during the trial of ...
A Douglas County jury has been selected to hear the case of a Lawrence man accused of sexually abusing two young girls during sleepovers at his home several years ago.
On Monday, a jury of seven men and seven women, including two alternates, heard an opening argument from prosecutor David Melton that characterized defendant Jordey M. McTaggart as a man who lusted after his children's playmates and sexually ...
A young man was summoned to appear on Friday in Douglas County District Court to face charges that he sold wristbands to underage people so that they could drink alcohol in January, when two people were shot at The Hawk bar, one fatally.
The young man, Hunter J. Noravong, is listed in court records as having been born in 2006 and as residing in Shawnee Mission. According to his LinkedIn page, he's a computer ...
