Subject: Johnson District Attorney

• Kline's Office Goes On Trial

  September 12, 2007

• Woman Behind Pro-Kline Quote Has a Secret

  October 22, 2007

• Anti-Abortion Protester Isn't Broke After All

  November 17, 2007

• Daily Briefs: Brain injuries, Phill Kline. Plus: You kids get off Channel 41's lawn!

  June 10, 2008

• Kline Buys JoCo House from Campaign Donors

  July 1, 2008

• Defense Attorney Says Phill Kline Has Screwed Up Edwin Hall Case

  July 9, 2008

• Kline's Name Looms Over Senate Race

  July 10, 2008

• Kline's Campaign Manager Hates Abortion but Loves Christmas

  July 18, 2008

• Daily Briefs: From now on, they'll be showing their buttcracks... in buttcrack jail.

  August 7, 2008

• More JoCo DA defections

  August 22, 2008

• Paul Morrison cleared in mistress probe

  After nine months, a pair of special prosecutors has cleared former Kansas Attorney General Paul Morrison of criminal wrongdoing in an investigation of his conduct during an extramarital affair. Morrison's political nemesis, Johnson County District Attorney Phill Kline, handpicked Tim Keck and Robert Arnold to investigate allegations that Morrison used his affair with Linda Carter to attempt to spy on Kline's investigation of abortion clinics and influence a lawsuit filed by eight DA's Office em

  December 17, 2008

• Howe fires eight from DA's office

  Incoming Johnson County District Attorney Steve Howe has told eight employees of the DA's office to find new jobs, The Kansas City Star reported Monday. Howe wouldn't name names, but sources tell us that the eight employees following Phill Kline out the door in January are all Kline hires. They are:Eric Rucker, Kline's chief of staff Dave Davies, attorneyJohn Christopher Pryor, attorneyGabrielle Rhodes, attorneyTom Williams, investigatorMegan Harmon, Kline's assistantBob Curtis, victim witness c

  December 18, 2008

• Toby Keith's I Love This Daily Briefs

  I've always had trouble writing "News of the Weird"-type posts. Because they're like the journalistic equivalent of those wacky cans of peanut brittle that turns out to have CRAZY SPRINGY SNAKES INSIDE! And what am I, Mr. Krazy Headlines So Weird They're True? Which is what I asked Justin while we were shaking the vending machine in the hallway. "More like Mr. Ten Year Old Girl," said Justin. "If you owned a restaurant, it would be called Toby Keith's I Love This My First Bra™ Training Bra."

  December 23, 2008

• Farewell Phill Kline

  In about 72 hours, Phill Kline's term as Johnson County District Attorney will expire. Kline leaves office, and Steve Howe takes over. Most of Kline's minions have already received their pink slips, so Monday in the DA's office should go by quietly without everyone fearing for their jobs. In the last three years, Kline has been the most intriguing figure in Kansas politics. The latest headlines say Kline won't be taking copies of women's medical records with him as a souvenir. I'm sad to see Kl

  January 9, 2009

• Spit It Out

  July 3, 2003

• Miss You, Brownie

  December 28, 2006

• Regime change

  January 15, 2009

• Head Cases

  A man who had sex at Shawnee Mission Park and patrons at a St. Louis porn house carry the baton for gays and lesbians in Kansas and Missouri.

  January 2, 2003

• Former candidate for JoCo DA in jail

  Scott Hattrup​Scott Hattrup, a Johnson County attorney and unsuccessful Republican candidate for the Kansas statehouse and for Johnson County District Attorney, is in the Johnson County jail on civil contempt charges for failing to comply with a divorce decree from April 2008.  Hattrup was ordered on July 29 "to enter into and execute a contract to list for a sale" a house at 11925 West 92nd Terrace in Lenexa. He didn't do it, so the Johnson County Sheriff threw him in jail. He'll stay th

  August 21, 2009

• Threatening to arrest your date won't win her heart

  ​Aaron Lee Walton has a lot to learn about love. Walton, 33, allegedly told a date that he was an undercover police officer and threatened to arrest his date if she didn't go to his house. Smooth. Can't imagine why that one didn't work. The Johnson County District Attorney charged Walton today with battery and false impersonation of a law enforcement officer. That's get you on Don't Date Him Girl.

  September 2, 2009

• KS Supreme Court to consider temporary suspension of former JoCo DA candidate's law license

  Scott HattrupScott Hattrup, a Johnson County attorney and unsuccessful Republican candidate for the Kansas statehouse and for Johnson County District Attorney, is scheduled to go before the Kansas Supreme Court next Friday to try to stop his law license from being temporarily suspended. On August 21, Hattrup was supposed to appear at an ethics hearing before the Office of Disciplinary Administrator, which hears complaints against lawyers in the state of Kansas. But Hattrup was in the Johnson Cou

  September 11, 2009

• Man questioned in Keighley Ann Alyea disappearance being held in JoCo jail on 2007 warrant

  Sean Michael Merritt​A man questioned Sunday in the disappearance of 18-year-old Keighley Ann Alyea is still being held in the Johnson County jail on a 2007 warrant for telephone harassment. Sean Michael Merritt, 22, is being held for failure to appear on the charges with a $25,000 bond. Overland Park police questioned Merritt on Sunday, but few details have been released. Police say they took information from Merritt and were tracking other leads.Alyea was last seen late last Tuesday. Police

  October 5, 2009

• My two wives

  ​The player haters in the Johnson County District Attorney's office charged a 62-year-old Overland Park man with bigamy back in March. Yesterday, Charles L. Clemens pleaded guilty to bigamy and identity theft. The Kansas City Star tells a fantastic story of a married man of more than 20 years marrying another woman in the same apartment complex ... just a few doors down. Somehow, neither wife knew about the other. The Star reports that Clemens told his second wife, Jayme Wear, that he was a re

  October 14, 2009

• Jill Conaghan suspected of Overland Park hit-and-run

  Jill Conaghan​Jill Theresa Conaghan was arrested Tuesday for suspicion of involuntary manslaughter and drunken driving in connection with the hit-and-run death of an Overland Park woman who was killed while tending to her garden.Police also suspect Conaghan, 19, of leaving the scene of an accident, minor in possession of alcohol and driving on the sidewalk. The Johnson County District Attorney has not yet charged Conaghan. In July, 70-year-old Sandra Carocari was working in her garden when she

  November 4, 2009