A Johnson County man will spend the next five years in prison after a judge sentenced him for child sex crimes committed on Christmas Eve 2020.
Jake Ruthrauff, 27, of Prairie Village was sentenced Jan. 4, after reaching a plea...
The mood is somber in Magistrate Judge John McEntee’s on a recent Friday morning. It’s 8:30 a.m. and the courtroom is filling up. Waiting on hard wooden pews are people, many of whom have fallen thousands of dollars behind...
Johnson County prosecutors have filed a motion seeking to dismiss three felony sexual battery charges against Jackson Mahomes stemming from an incident last year at an Overland Park restaurant.
In a motion filed Tuesday, Assistant District Attorney Meghan Ahsens cited...
By Stephen Koranda and Calen Moore
The Kansas Supreme Court has revived a challenge to a state law that caused advocacy groups to cancel voter registration drives.
The justices ruled Friday that the Kansas Court of Appeals wrongly threw out a...
By Bek Shackelford-Nwanganga
Content warning: This story contains some details of sexual abuse.
Until recently, two of Sarah and Brandon Howland’s three daughters were patients of pediatric neurologist Dr. Brian Aalbers. The girls, ages 2 and 3, saw Aalbers at Overland...
A Prairie Village woman is suing Saint Luke’s after the hospital system allegedly failed to diagnose her with multiple sclerosis for the past decade.
Sara Allison in early November filed a lawsuit against the hospital system and two Saint Luke’s...
Chiefs wide receiver Justyn Ross has reached a diversion agreement with prosecutors in a domestic violence case in Johnson County.
The agreement, signed and filed last Wednesday, according to online court records, means Ross could have charges dismissed if he...
A Prairie Village couple is suing the city of Mission Hills after their two dogs were severely injured by coyote traps at a city park earlier this year.
Last week, Elisabeth Kirsch and Douglas Drake filed a lawsuit against Mission...
Johnson County prosecutors this week upgraded a criminal charge against Chiefs wide receiver Justyn Ross to a felony.
Ross now faces one felony charge for criminal damage greater than $1,000 but less than $25,000. He also faces a misdemeanor domestic...
Michael L. Balance, 60, was convicted of second-degree murder last week in connection to the 2021 death of John Hoffman, 70.
A Johnson County jury found Balance, of Des Moines, Iowa, guilty on Oct. 19, more than two years after...
Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Justyn Ross sat silently during his court appearance Tuesday afternoon in Johnson County.
Ross, 23, is charged with two misdemeanors stemming from an alleged domestic violence altercation that occurred Monday afternoon inside his Shawnee apartment.
The...
A Johnson County man will serve nearly three years in state prison for running over and killing an Overland Park teenager in 2019.
A judge on Wednesday sentenced Sudhir Gandhi, 75, to 34 months in prison for the death of...
