A Douglas County judge on Wednesday sentenced a Lawrence man to nearly five years in prison for attempted rape of a child in a case that dates back nearly two decades.
The defendant, Lance Lee Yoder, 55, was convicted on April 1 after pleading no contest as part of a deal with the state that dropped more serious charges.
Yoder originally faced three counts of rape, but one count had been dismissed earlier ...
A Bureau of Indian Education employee sexually harassed student-athletes on the women’s basketball team at Haskell Indian Nations University, according to an investigation by the Office of the Inspector General in the U.S. Department of the Interior.
The OIG investigation found that the employee, an athletic trainer, made crude jokes and comments of a sexual nature to students and engaged in unwelcome ...
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 ...
