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1 day ago | 
www2.ljworld.com | Chris Conde
Mary Kay Howe has been typing out the record in Douglas County courtrooms for nearly 50 years now. But there was a time in the ’70s when it looked like she’d be leaving the profession in record time instead. Howe, who retired from Douglas County District Court this past week, told the Journal-World about her first court reporting job, in Wyandotte County.
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3 days ago | 
www2.ljworld.com | Chris Conde
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4 days ago | 
www2.ljworld.com | Chris Conde
A Lawrence man was taken into custody Tuesday night on suspicion of attempted first-degree murder after he allegedly fired at least a dozen bullets into a residence. Police were called to a residence near 33rd and Iowa streets in southwest Lawrence around 9 p.m. Tuesday after multiple neighbors reported hearing gunshots, according to a release from the Lawrence Police Department. Officers found a mobile home that appeared to have been shot at, with a man inside who had not been injured.
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6 days ago | 
www2.ljworld.com | Chris Conde
Douglas County’s sheriff said it was both inaccurate and unfair for the county to be labeled a sanctuary city for illegal immigrants by the federal government last week. But Sheriff Jay Armbrister said he also is continuing with his practice that immigration enforcement is the job of the federal government and not local jurisdictions.
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1 week ago | 
www2.ljworld.com | Chris Conde
While west Lawrence lost a space to shop for groceries when the Hy-Vee store near Sixth and Monterey Way closed in 2019, nearly five years later the big space has helped Lawrence enter the world of major, private sports facilities for youths and adults alike. Or, put another way, you can’t get pickles there anymore, but you can play pickleball. The facility at 4000 W.
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1 week ago | 
www2.ljworld.com | Chris Conde
An Oskaloosa man who was previously convicted of soliciting sex from a child was charged on Friday with human trafficking and a sex crime against a teenager. The man, Kenneth John McClelland, 30, faces one felony count of aggravated human trafficking and one felony count of aggravated indecent liberties with a child, according to charging documents. The charges relate to an alleged incident on May 10 involving a 15-year-old girl. McClelland was arrested on May 29 at his Oskaloosa home.
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1 week ago | 
www2.ljworld.com | Chris Conde
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2 weeks ago | 
www2.ljworld.com | Chris Conde
A hearing for a Lawrence police officer accused of misdemeanor battery in Shawnee County was delayed on Friday due to a busy court schedule. The officer, Myrone Grady, 51, is charged with one misdemeanor count of battery in connection with an incident on Jan. 27 at Shawnee Heights High School, where he was attending his son’s basketball game, as the Journal-World reported. Grady is alleged to have struck a man during an argument.
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2 weeks ago | 
www2.ljworld.com | Chris Conde
A teen girl took the stand on Thursday and testified that a man sexually assaulted her multiple times and that, once police were involved, attempted to bribe her to change her story. The accused, Mark Brent Lee, 41, is charged in Douglas County District Court with one count of rape, one count of aggravated indecent liberties with a child and one count of aggravated intimidation of a witness, all felonies. The girl 14 years old at the time of the alleged assaults between December 2023 and May 2024.
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3 weeks ago | 
www2.ljworld.com | Chris Conde
newslink My Account May 17, 2025 - 5:50pm For graduate students in the University of Kansas’ architecture school, the final exam isn’t just a couple of hours long, and you’ll need more than a pencil and paper to take it. As a last step to earning their degrees, the students in the master’s program spend a year in the school’s Studio 804 capstone course, where they design and construct a real-life single-family home themselves. Sometimes they work 12- or 14-hour days, drilling, framing,...
