Johnson County Sheriff Calvin Hayden faces a competitive Republican primary against Doug Bedford, his former undersheriff, on Aug. 6. Susan Pfannmuller Special to The Star Reality Check is a Star ...

Johnson County Sheriff Calvin Hayden lost his reelection bid in Tuesday’s primary, signaling discontent among a majority of Republican voters over his long-running and controversial election ...

In the Johnson County, Kansas, Republican primary for sheriff, Sheriff Calvin Hayden is facing a potential upset against former undersheriff Doug Bedford.

Johnson County Sheriff Calvin Hayden speaks at the press conference on Aug. 27, 2020. Illustration: HuffPost/The Kansas City Star/Getty Images In November, Calvin Hayden spoke to a fringe ...

Johnson County, Kansas, Sheriff Calvin Hayden is going up against his former undersheriff Doug Bedford in this month’s primary election. 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays. Watch Now ...

Hayden confirmed his voter fraud investigation in 2022, ... FILE – Johnson County, Kan., Sheriff Calvin Hayden speaks at a news conference, Aug. 27, 2020, in Olathe, Kan. ...

A three-year investigation by former Johnson County Sheriff Calvin Hayden cost taxpayers $88,000 and found no evidence of election fraud in Johnson County during the 2020 election.

Former Johnson County Sheriff Frank Denning endorsed Doug Bedford, who is challenging current Sheriff Calvin Hayden. Tammy Ljungblad [email protected] Frank Denning, who spent more than a ...

Roberson found in his own investigation that Hayden spent $88,000 and 880 hours on the fruitless investigation. At the time, Hayden claimed he received more than 200 complaints of fraud and was ...

The sheriff in Kansas' most populous county faced no opposition to his reelection four years ago, extending a decades-long Republican lock on the office despite big gains locally by Democrats ...

Hayden is a former Army reservist who joined the sheriff’s department in 1981 and rose through the ranks until he won a seat on the county commission in 2008, serving one four-year term.

Last month, Hayden said he suspended the investigation, blaming the county’s destruction in February of ballots from 2019, 2020 and 2021, which is at least 17 months late but in line with state law.