photo by:Chris Conde/Journal-World Terrence Shannon Jr. hugs his mother after he was acquitted of a rape charge on June 13, 2024, in Douglas County District Court. NBA player Terrence Shannon is reportedly preparing to sue the Douglas County Dist...
After the Kansas Supreme Court’s decision, the case went forward again in Douglas County District Court, where Ney argued that Miller’s case should receive a change of venue because aDouglas County jury would be prejudiced following a decade of publicity in the case. Ney commissioned a study...
With an impending move to a much larger office space, a Douglas County nonprofit that advocates for kids under the protection of the court system is preparing for what it hopes will be a period of substantial growth. That nonprofit is Douglas...
Douglas County and the sheriffs, former and present, named in a federal lawsuit filed by Rontarus Washington Jr. for wrongful incarceration are seeking dismissal of the case based on qualified immunity, the statute of limitations and failure to s...
Kansas. State Sen. Tom Holland — a Baldwin City Democrat who is the ranking minority member on the Kansas Senate Committee on Assessment and Taxation — said Douglas County’s efforts were the first he had heard of any county trying to t...
jails who suffer from mental problems and the decline of state-funded mental health treatment beds in Kansas. It cites the key elements of the Douglas County reentry program including the integration of mental health and drug treatment in a diversionary court, and crisis intervention training for...
The Douglas County Commission will not hold its regular Wednesday meeting this week, but is slated to convene on Oct. 11. County Administrator Sarah Plinsky i
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As chairman of the Committee on Territories, Douglas dominated the Senate in the 1850s. In 1854 he set off a tremendous political upheaval when he introduced his Kansas-Nebraska Act to the Senate. He argued that the people of the territory should decide the slavery question by themselves, and...
The Kansas-Nebraska Act spurred the creation of theRepublican Party, formed largely to keep slavery out of the western territories. Both Douglas’s doctrine of popularsovereigntyand the Republican stand on free soil were seemingly invalidated by theDred Scott decisionof 1857, in which the Supreme ...