Kansas Appeals Court Judge Jacy Hurst drew more than a few chuckles Monday as she repeatedly — and a bit scornfully — emphasized the word “male” while reading aloud from the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution.
Hurst was participating in a public reading of all 7,591 words of the Constitution — including its seven articles and 27 amendments — at the Douglas County Courthouse along with ...
A mother who lost a son to a fentanyl overdose described her “crippling grief” Friday morning to a Douglas County judge at the sentencing hearing of the woman who had a hand in the young man’s death.
Christina Aldridge, the mother of Cameron Bricker, who died at age 26 on Dec. 9, 2022, after buying pills from the defendant, Terriana Audry Atkinson, placed a framed photo of her son on the lectern as she ...
A Lawrence man on Friday was acquitted by a jury of choking a woman — his second such acquittal in Douglas County in less than three months.
Servando Martinez-Vazquez, 24, was tried this week after being charged with aggravated domestic battery by choking, felony criminal threat and misdemeanor domestic battery. The jury of nine men and three women heard testimony from a young woman claiming that he had ...
Members of Congress are still at apparent loggerheads with the U.S. Department of the Interior as they try to obtain information related to their investigation of alleged misconduct at Haskell Indian Nations University and the Bureau of Indian Education, and they are calling on Interior Secretary Deb Haaland to step in.
Two congressional committees — the House Committee on Education and the Workforce and the ...
A Lawrence man with a lengthy criminal record narrowly avoided a prison term Wednesday for felony criminal threat after a Douglas County judge granted a departure from the state sentencing guidelines and gave him probation instead.
“If you have the least misstep” while on probation, Judge Sally Pokorny warned the man, “you’re going to go to prison.”
The man, Joshua Moore Jeffcoat, 36, was originally ...
A 22-year-old Lawrence man who shot and injured his parents last year is now facing a charge of involuntary manslaughter in Shawnee County.
Dalton Vale Turner was arrested Tuesday morning on a warrant during a traffic stop by Lawrence police. The warrant was out of Shawnee County, where prosecutors late last week charged Turner with involuntary manslaughter while under the influence and also with driving under ...
