There were no arrests that led to felony charges to report from 5 p.m. Monday to 5 p.m. Tuesday. The Journal-World publishes Monday through Friday on LJWorld.com and Tuesday through Saturday in the print edition a list of individuals who have both been booked into the Douglas County Jail and ...
Two weeks before Joan Cody died, a Kansas employee urged state regulators to investigate alleged abuse and neglect at her northeast Kansas memory care facility. “I don’t normally reach out unless I believe (state) intervention is necessary, but I must bring a serious situation to your ...
TOPEKA — A panel of U.S. Court of Appeals judges agreed with a lower court that Sedgwick County juvenile detention personnel couldn’t sidestep an excessive-force lawsuit filed against them after a teenager in mental distress was held in a face-down restraint until he suffered cardiac arrest ...
The Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission unanimously voted to find a proposed $300 million development project around KU’s football stadium meets the city’s goals for development. The commissioners voted Monday that the second phase of KU’s Gateway project, which would add a ...
Two Lawrence patrol service dogs placed at the Shawnee County Sheriff’s Office K9 Games on Sunday in Topeka, and a Lawrence Police Department spokeswoman said they "had a blast" performing for the crowd. The second annual K9 Games featured 11 teams, each consisting of a dog and their law ...
Federal oversight of Haskell Indian Nations University hasn’t gone well, a top official with the Bureau of Indian Affairs told a congressional committee on Tuesday, and added the agency likely would be supportive of Haskell becoming more independent. Scott Davis, the Department of ...
