Teen in custody in connection with shooting death of Lawrence girl
A teen has been taken into custody in connection with the Olathe shooting death of Brianna Higgins, a Lawrence High School sophomore, according to police.
A teen has been taken into custody in connection with the Olathe shooting death of Brianna Higgins, a Lawrence High School sophomore, according to police.
A Douglas County judge must decide whether to believe Albert Wilson, who says he was wrongly convicted and should be compensated, or the woman who says Wilson raped her when she was 17.
A secretive Kansas disciplinary board has dismissed a complaint against Johnson County District Attorney Steve Howe for releasing a false narrative about the 2018 police killing of John Albers.
The Douglas County District Court clerk’s office will reduce its public hours beginning Thursday so that staff members can catch up on a backlog caused by a cyberattack on the statewide court records system.
Former Montgomery County prosecutor Lisa Montgomery appeared before a judicial ethics panel in May to face retribution for breaking a cardinal rule. She had complained publicly about a sitting judge.
The state’s highest court on Friday rejected Kyle Flack’s appeal against the death penalty for his convictions in the fatal 2013 shootings of four people in Ottawa.
Kansas Supreme Court Chief Justice Marla Luckert said Wednesday that the state didn’t pay ransom demands of a cybercriminal group that infiltrated the judicial branch’s computer system in October.
The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office and other law enforcement agencies across the state will have more deputies on duty this weekend in hopes of removing more impaired drivers from roadways.
A critic of now-rescinded COVID-19 mask mandates filed a federal lawsuit against the Lawrence public school district superintendent and school board members to challenge constitutionality of his banishment from district property.
Drivers who got citations from the Kansas Highway Patrol and who were given court dates to appear in Douglas County District Court this Friday, Dec. 29, received the wrong date.
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