Story updated at 5:59 p.m. Tuesday: A man who killed a Eudora child in a hit-and-run accident in May was sentenced on Tuesday in Douglas County District Court to nearly six years in prison. Judge Amy Hanley handed down the maximum possible sentence to Jose Alfredo Galiano Meza after a lengthy and emotional hearing at which loved ones of the accident victim, Brooklyn Brouhard, spoke to the court about the ...
As a woman accused of killing a baby at a Eudora day care faces a new trial, she is renewing her motion to be freed from house arrest in the 6-year-old murder case — a move that prosecutors oppose as “entirely devoid of any legitimate legal basis.” The woman, Carrody Buchhorn, 47, was convicted in 2018 of killing 9-month-old Oliver “Ollie” L. Ortiz in 2016 at the day care where she worked. Her ...
A Douglas County District Court judge has expressed concern about the District Attorney’s Office becoming “crossways with all of the law enforcement in the entire county” and appeared to side at least partially and for the time being with the sheriff in his dispute with the DA. Judge Sally Pokorny made the comment Monday at a hearing regarding Douglas County Sheriff Jay Armbrister’s motion to quash a ...
Updated at 12:01 p.m. Monday Organizers of Art in the Park were shocked Saturday morning to discover that a number of paintings had been stolen overnight from one of the festival participants at the annual event, and they are offering a reward for the return of the artwork. Maria Martin, president of the Lawrence Art Guild, which hosts Art in the Park, told the Journal-World Monday that the event had been ...
While most University of Kansas students are gearing up for midterms and celebrating the KU football team, one group of students — those from Iran — are losing sleep and agonizing over the fate of loved ones back home. “Everyone is distracted from their education and classes and projects. … It's really hard for us to go to sleep at night because there are always new people being killed and arrested,” ...
Jared Martin has learned a number of things while playing the lead role in Theatre Lawrence's "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert." One of them, he says, is that "wearing 4-inch stilettos and running around is hard." (Or, as RuPaul has more pointedly put it, "Drag ain't for sissies.") "Priscilla," the stage adaptation of the 1994 Australian road-trip movie, isn't Martin's first time performing in drag — that was ...