An inmate who escaped Wednesday from Lansing Correctional Facility has been apprehended in Johnson County.According to the Kansas Department of Corrections, Ronny Dale Peters, 33, was apprehended at 11:20 a.m. Friday in the Gardner area by Kansas Department of Corrections officials and U.S. ...
A Basehor teenager is in serious condition at a local hospital after he was injured in a car accident late Friday west of Bonner Springs. According to a report from the Leavenworth County Sheriff's Office, 17-year-old Preston Farris of Basehor was driving north on 166th Street across Kansas ...
The bearded bank robber who held up a Shawnee branch last week apparently struck again Wednesday in Olathe.The FBI — which has dubbed the suspect the 'Fake Beard Bandit' — hopes plastering his photos on digital billboards will help put an end to his spree. The FBI announced today that it ...
Tonganoxie police officers took into custody a 19-year-old Tonganoxie man early Tuesday morning after his unsuccessful attempt to break into the Medicine Store.Tonganoxie Police Chief Jeff Brandau said the suspect cut his hand while breaking out the plate glass drive-up window at the pharmacy ...
A Shawnee woman is leading the effort to raise reward money for a homicide victim who died after being burned over 97 percent of his body. Debbie Cain, who owns Debbie’s Daycare, is the sister of Frank D. Locklear, who died July 2 in Kansas City, Kan.The incident happened about 2:30 a.m. in ...
If Carole Green wasn’t a creature, perhaps even a slave, to habit, she may not have been fined Friday $1,000 for littering.Green, of 17324 Kansas Ave., Bonner Springs, was sentenced Friday on four counts of misdemeanor littering in Leavenworth County Court. District Court Judge Gunnar Sundby, ...
A Tonganoxie man is in Leavenworth County Jail after a car chase early Tuesday morning through downtown Tonganoxie.Tonganoxie Police Chief Jeff Brandau said Wednesday that police attempted to stop the 35-year-old man about 1 a.m. after he was driving in the wrong lane in the 300 block of Main ...
The Internal Revenue Service is warning taxpayers of email scams circulating in Kansas that use the IRS name and logo.The latest scam email targets individuals claiming their federal tax return was rejected and directs the recipient to complete an attached form. The attachment, the IRS reports, ...
A Leavenworth man has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for producing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.Allan Fry, 39, Leavenworth, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Kan., to one count of producing child pornography. In his plea, Fry ...
A 22-year-old Tonganoxie man has been charged with fleeing and attempting to elude after he allegedly led police on a chase May 9 and then abandoned his pickup.Officials have not found Nicholas Dean Meyer, who last was seen where the chase ended, near 262nd Street and Loring Road, northeast of ...
