Mary Cowdin stood outside a Douglas County courtroom in mid-December, waiting to learn the fate of a man who had been charged in connection with the death of her daughter Angelyca.
Angelyca was the 23-year-old’s real name, but, as her best friend, Raven Wilson, noted, no one ever called her that.
“Because to us she was Angel,” Wilson said, even though they often joked about how she was no real angel, ...
Ollie Ortiz would have celebrated his seventh birthday this month, and if Carrody Buchhorn could talk to his parents, she would tell them that she is not the reason their baby is gone.
"I really want them to know that I absolutely did nothing to hurt Ollie and I loved him and I still love him," she told the Journal-World Monday, three days after a murder case against her was dismissed and she was freed from ...
A Douglas County District Court judge has dismissed the case of a woman who was accused of killing a baby six years ago at a Eudora day care center where she worked and has ordered the woman released from custody.
In its order Friday, the court cited the failure of the Douglas County District Attorney's Office, in the murder case of Carrody Buchhorn, to find a forensic pathologist in a timely manner who could ...
In response to concerns expressed by people living at the North Lawrence campsite for those experiencing homelessness, the City of Lawrence is admitting that it "erred" in announcing the imminent closure of the camp and is committing to leaving the site open through March 12, 2023.
The city, in a news release, reversed course Wednesday after dozens of people showed up to Tuesday's City Commission meeting to ...
In addition to fighting crime, Lawrence’s police dogs also help raise money for charity. On Sunday, they did so in a particularly colorful and gleeful way, by making art.
The three patrol service dogs for the Lawrence Police Department — Mack, Shadow and Cheeseburger — each created a painting that will be auctioned off to benefit a group that's looking out for their interests: a nonprofit that provides ...
In a rare display of atonement — and an apparent first of its kind in Lawrence — two young men on Saturday publicly apologized at the scene of their crime.
Their offense, which in previous generations might have been callously dismissed as a college-boy prank, deeply affected the University of Kansas’ Indigenous community — not the least because the sign they stole from KU’s Spencer Museum of Art was ...
