Douglas County News

A high-speed chase that started Friday night south of Topeka on the Kansas Turnpike resulted in the arrests of two Wichita men in Douglas County, authorities said Saturday.

Wes and Stephanie Bjornstad, Plainville, announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Audrey Bjornstad, to Brady Bell, son of Richard and Leslie Bell, Hill City.

University of Kansas officials say a graduate student who was poisoned after ingesting a toxic chemical while working in a lab didnt follow proper procedures.

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment will join with partners throughout Kansas in commemorating World AIDS Day on December 1. The World Health Organization established World AIDS Day in 1988.

A University of Kansas class is recording the stories of members of the state's lesser known religions as their numbers dwindle.

The Colorado Division of Securities has sanctioned a Dallas-based oil and gas company, Nueces Valley Resources Inc.

A second suspect is charged for alledgely running a cockfighting operation in Douglas County.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 Two men have been arrested and 169 birds were seized in what authorities claim was the raid of a cockfighting ring in rural Douglas County.

The arrests of two Douglas County men on suspicion of cockfighting will be the first to test a new state law that makes cockfighting a felony.

Douglas County officials have scheduled a press conference this afternoon to announce charges against two suspects related to a cockfighting operation.The arrests followed months of planning before a raid early this morning at a rural Douglas County home, they said.Douglas County District Attorney Charles Branson and Sheriff Ken McGovern will have ...

With a boom, but no crash, the bridge blast on the Kansas Turnpike in Lawrence was over in a few seconds on Sunday.

White Owl is still locked up in the Douglas County clink. The man cracked down on the 62-year-old, unofficial third-string mascot of the Kansas Jayhawks, whose real name is Jimmy Neil Tucker , after he amassed an impressive rap sheet in the last couple of years -- including allegedly stealing books from KU's library.

A Hutchinson woman was transported to a Topeka hospital after rolling her vehicle multiple times Wednesday morning in Douglas County.

The unofficial third-team mascot of Kansas Jayhawk football is locked up in the Douglas County jail.

Two men riding a motorcycle were hurt in a traffic accident at about 5:35 p.m. Friday at the junction of K-10 highway and the Kansas Turnpike, near this community in western Douglas County, authorities said.

A University of Kansas graduate student was hospitalized in critical condition after he ingested a toxic chemical while working in a lab.

" Environmentalist are battling the state of Kansas over a plan to build a highway over wetlands.

It's a creative writing class but the classroom is behind bars. Female inmates at the Douglas County Jail are expressing themselves through writing and some of the work as been published.

Attorneys for a Eudora woman whose doctor removed the wrong ovary said Thursday that a $250,000 cap for damages was unconstitutional.

Madison Diederich knows most people her age don't wear their seatbelts much of the time, "and it drives me crazy." "I literally put it on before I close the door," the South High junior said, as she stood along Magnolia Road earlier this week as school let out, clipboard in hand.