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...
The county’s response claims that these descriptions do not adequately explain the alleged violations committed by the sheriffs or what county policies led to any violations; the suit also fails to actually name the defendants in those descriptions...
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...
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...
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. ...
Douglas County CASA is gearing up to move to a new office space at 725 N. 2nd St. in North Lawrence. With an impending move to a much larger office space, a Douglas County nonprofit that advocates for kids under the protection of the ...
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 ...
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 informed commissioners at the Sept. 27 meeting that she planned to attend the International City/County Management Association’s annual confer...
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 ...
(except Missouri) north of the 36°30′parallel. The Kansas-Nebraska Act, sponsored by Democratic Sen.Stephen A. Douglas, provided for the territorial organization ofKansasand Nebraska under the principle ofpopular sovereignty, which had been applied toNew Mexicoand Utah in theCompromise of 1850....