A violent sex offender from New York accepted a plea agreement from prosecutors in Douglas County District Court on Thursday, avoiding a jury trial that was scheduled for next month. Kyle Elder, 35, pleaded no contest to two counts of aggravated abuse of a child, both felonies. Under the plea ...

Former Douglas County District Attorney Suzanne Valdez always believed that Carrody Buchhorn murdered 9-month-old Oliver Ortiz at a Eudora day care in 2016, and an expert's report saying that Oliver died of natural causes didn't change her mind one bit, she testified Wednesday at Buchhorn's ...

A Douglas County judge presiding over two lawsuits against the Lawrence school district related to allegations of sexual abuse at an elementary school denied the district's request to halt the civil proceedings until the criminal case is entirely completed. Judge Catherine Theisen is ...

A Douglas County jury on Tuesday took under an hour to acquit a man of aggravated battery after he was accused of attacking another man last winter and gouging his eyes. The man, Hector Seeger, 21, took the stand Tuesday morning and admitted that he had "poked" the other man's eyes after the ...

A college student on Monday told a Douglas County jury that shortly after he left a bar one night last winter another young man jumped him, gouged his eyes and pulled him to the ground. The 21-year-old student said that the man — defendant Hector Seeger, who is charged with the felony of ...

Story updated at 11:44 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 15, 2025 CARBONDALE — Four law enforcement officers were shot Saturday morning while responding to a domestic violence call at a home in a rural area south of Topeka, and a 22-year-old male suspect died of gunshot wounds at the scene. The ...