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New lawsuit challenges City of Lawrence’s housing discrimination ordinance
A real estate company has filed a federal lawsuit against the City of Lawrence challenging an ordinance that bans discrimination based on where a potential tenant’s rent payments would come from, such as housing vouchers.
New lawsuit challenges City of Lawrence’s housing discrimination ordinance
A real estate company has filed a federal lawsuit against the City of Lawrence challenging an ordinance that bans discrimination based on where a potential tenant’s rent payments would come from, such as housing vouchers.
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Kansas governor signs bill to expedite analysis of sexual assault kits
A new Kansas law will require the review of all sexual assault kits in a timely fashion, ensuring no tests languish on the shelf as they have previously.
Carlos Moreno / KCUR
KU professor charged under Trump-era initiative convicted of wire fraud
A federal jury has convicted KU chemistry professor Feng “Franklin” Tao of four counts of wire fraud. He’s the first defendant among about two dozen academics charged under a since-disbanded Trump-era program known as the China Initiative.
Carlos Moreno / KCUR
Case of KU professor accused of concealing China ties goes to the jury
A lawyer for Feng “Franklin” Tao, a KU chemistry professor, said the government’s case was “based on air.”
Carlos Moreno / KCUR
Defense will put on its case in closely watched trial of KU professor accused of wire fraud
An FBI agent instrumental in the arrest of University of Kansas professor Feng “Franklin” Tao will be called as a defense witness next week as Tao’s lawyers seek to discredit the government’s handling of the case.
Andrea Albright / The Lawrence Times
‘Monster in the dark’ sentenced to 19 months probation following plea agreement
A man who was originally charged with raping his 17-year-old stepdaughter was sentenced on Friday to 19 months of probation after reaching a plea agreement with the district attorney’s office.
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Texas man to be tried for rape after alleged assault of KU student
A judge on Tuesday bound a 25-year-old Texas man over for trial on a charge of raping a woman while she was too intoxicated to give consent, but the man’s defense attorney questions whether investigators collected evidence effectively to support the case.
‘Just bunk’: Kansas Supreme Court asks state to defend coroner’s theory in Eudora baby’s death
Kansas Supreme Court justices on Wednesday raised questions about a coroner’s theory that “depolarization” in an infant’s brain had caused instantaneous death at the hands of a child care provider.
Kansas is on a path to make it easier to get your seized property back from police
Police can keep seized property “as long as necessary,” state statute says, if they believe it could be evidence in a trial. A proposed change to state law would require police to give items back.
KU professor accused of fraud under China Initiative goes to criminal trial
The two and a half years since her husband, Franklin Tao, was arrested have been a waking nightmare for Hong Peng and the couple’s two children. Tao was the first person arrested under the China Initiative, the brainchild of President Donald Trump’s U.S. Department of Justice.
Prosecutors move to seal document in rape case against ex-Lawrence police officer
Documents filed in the case of a former Lawrence police officer accused of raping a woman while on duty indicate that prosecutors are moving forward cautiously to protect both the woman and their case. Also, here’s how the man’s bond differs from most local sex crime cases.
