Incumbent District Attorney Suzanne Valdez on Saturday sought to defend her first-term performance as Douglas County's chief law enforcement official as two other candidates vying for her job voiced concerns about the public's eroding trust in her office and the charging decisions she has made. ...
A documentary capturing one of Kansas City’s first Black police officers and the city’s first Black department director, Alvin Brooks, will premiere Wednesday at the Juneteenth Film Festival at the Screenland Armour Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri. The film, “The Heroic True-Life ...
A split Kansas Supreme Court ruling last week issued in a lawsuit over a 2021 election law found that voting is not a fundamental right listed in the state Constitution's Bill of Rights. The finding drew sharp criticism from three dissenting justices on the high court. The Associated Press ...
Updated 4:21 p.m. Wednesday: Kansas athletic director Travis Goff has received a raise to a starting base salary of $1.3 million and a contract extension through 2031, KU announced Wednesday afternoon. “I am thankful to Chancellor Girod for his continued trust in our team and I am honored ...
A former Haskell Indian Nations University president is seeking reinstatement via a federal appeal process more than three years after being terminated from the role. The Journal-World on Friday obtained a copy of a press release set to be released publicly early this week by the “Haskell ...
The Douglas County District Attorney’s Office mistakenly gave a massive amount of documentation to a plaintiff who is suing for wrongful imprisonment, and on Monday a Douglas County judge ruled that the office can’t “claw it back.” The upshot is that the attorneys of Carrody Buchhorn, ...