A special bench honoring the long history of women judges and attorneys in Douglas County will now sit outside the juvenile courtroom in the Judicial and Law Enforcement Center. The colorfully inviting bench, titled "Pioneers of the Bench," by Van Go artist Langley Gottesburen, was unveiled ...
When she was 12 years old, Tyler Mosher lost her dad, Mike, in the line of duty. He was a police officer in Overland Park, and he was killed in a shootout in 2020. One thing that helped her through that heartbreaking situation, Mosher said, was a special "buddy" doll that she received from the ...
Story updated at 4:59 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 4: The girlfriend of a defendant standing trial for aggravated criminal sodomy told a jury on Thursday that she and her boyfriend thought that the two alleged teen victims might "hit it off" but that a plan for the teen boy to sexually assault the ...
UPDATED 5:47 p.m. Sept. 4 Multiple Kansas Highway Patrol troopers spent hours Thursday blocking the driveway and scouring the property of the Lawrence Kia dealership in an operation that was connected to the Kansas Department of Revenue. Exactly what the law enforcement officers were doing ...
The Douglas County District Attorney's Office is trying a young man this week for aggravated criminal sodomy of two teens, one of them his brother. The case is unusual in that the defendant, Wyatt Farrow, is never alleged to have inappropriately touched either teen, and one of the teens — ...
A man accused of causing a crash that seriously injured a woman while fleeing from police on a motorcycle took a plea agreement on Wednesday in Douglas County District Court and could be sentenced to nearly two years in prison. Dillon Paul Herken, 26, of Easton, pleaded no contest to one count ...