One of the most painful experiences a parent can endure is seeing their child struggle in a world where they don’t fit in, where they’re made to feel that they are not “normal,” that they are less valuable than other children.
It was not an experience that Matt Enyart was willing to endure, certainly not in silence. His baby deserved better, and he spent the last decade of his life demanding better. Not ...
A complaint filed by a rape survivor against the Douglas County District Attorney’s Office has been dismissed after a finding that the conduct of the DA and her assistant — failing to notify rape survivors about a sentencing hearing — was a "mistake" but not unethical.
The decision has left the woman angry, sad and incredulous — not the least because the conduct she complained of as unethical is also, ...
Updated at 3:17 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2023
A formal complaint filed by a special prosecutor against Douglas County District Attorney Suzanne Valdez alleges that Valdez has violated multiple rules of professional conduct, including that she called a judge a liar and a sexist, implied that he was racist, sent him inappropriate texts and yelled and cursed about him to the extent that multiple attorneys in her ...
June 21 was supposed to mark a new beginning for Midnight, a skittish greyhound who had spent her first six years in a pen on a southeast Kansas farm.
She was a brood hound — impregnated twice a year — and producing puppies was her life.
Recently rescued from that fate, Midnight had just been spayed earlier that morning and was being delivered to a foster home in Lawrence — the first step toward a ...
In June of last year, Douglas County District Judge Stacey Donovan gave probation to a 20-year-old man convicted of a sex crime against a child. As she departed from the state’s sentencing guidelines to do so, she noted that she was taking “a very large leap of faith.”
That faith is now being tested as the man, Trey Gibson, of Lawrence, found himself back in court Tuesday to answer for allegedly violating ...
A Douglas County judge has blocked the public from seeing information related to the arrest of a suspect who is accused of violently murdering a man whose body was found beneath a clump of bushes in downtown Lawrence.
Judge Amy Hanley’s action came after the suspect’s attorney, John Kerns, argued that news organizations sought information about the crime simply to obtain “hits” on their websites and to ...
