TOPEKA — Douglas County District Judge Stacey Donovan says a prosecutor’s criticism of the Lawrence Journal-World raises First Amendment concerns and is “beneath the dignity” of the district attorney’s office. Joshua Seiden, Douglas County deputy district attorney, had tried to ...
At a trial for a man accused of raping a woman in her sleep, the woman testified Tuesday that the man regularly appeared in her daily life for years after the incident, and it affected her mental health to the point where she sought a protective order against him. The trial for 26-year-old ...
The special prosecutor in a disciplinary case against Douglas County District Attorney Suzanne Valdez is objecting to Valdez's motion that the attorney for the Kansas Board for Discipline of Attorneys be recused, and she characterizes many of Valdez's assertions in the matter as ...
The October disciplinary hearing for Douglas County District Attorney Suzanne Valdez will be in person and witnesses will be sequestered, a panel for the Kansas Board For Discipline of Attorneys has ruled. Going into the panel's pre-hearing conference for Valdez, the question was open whether ...
A Lawrence man who was previously granted diversion for sending nude pictures to a New Zealand blogger went to trial on Monday on a rape charge in connection with a University of Kansas freshman. The man, Kalim Akeba Lloyd Dowdell, 26, is charged in Douglas County District Court with one ...
Authorities have identified the driver killed in a crash Saturday on U.S. Highway 24-40 as a 74-year-old Tonganoxie man. The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office said Monday that William Ennis Jr., the driver of a westbound Ford Fusion on U.S. 24-40 between East 1600 and East 1675 roads, was ...