A 55-year-old Kansas man who traveled to the Philippines and had sex with minor females there was sentenced to more than 84 years in prison Thursday in Washington, D.C.Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Stephen R. ...
Officers eventually found a driver involved in a hit-and-run accident Thursday afternoon on Kansas Highway 16.The accident happened about 3:20 p.m. Thursday at 228th Street and K-16 west of Tonganoxie.The driver of a 1999 Ford F-250 truck struck a Dodge Ram 2500 van from behind, forcing the van ...
Kansas City, Kan. ? A judge dismissed criminal charges Friday against a Kansas water park owner and the designer of a 17-story slide on which a 10-year-old boy was decapitated in 2016.Wyandotte County Judge Robert Burns cited improper evidence in dropping second-degree murder charges against ...
Charges have been filed in Leavenworth County District Court for two Leavenworth residents alleged to have shot at and fled law enforcement officials last week.Anthony Robertson, 33, and Shauntel Cornelius, 29, had their first court appearance Monday at the Leavenworth County Justice ...
A former Tonganoxie resident was sentenced last week to more than 19 years in prison for aggravated robbery and burglary in a case related to the death of a police officer in Kansas City, Kan.Curtis Ayers, 30, was sentenced Thursday in Leavenworth County District Court for events that ...
A 41-year-old Leavenworth woman was convicted Thursday of one count rape of an 16-month-old girl.Mahogany Payne was convicted in Leavenworth County District court. For the purpose of this case, rape is defined as sexual intercourse with a victim younger than 14 when the offender is 18 or ...
A 48-year-old Kansas City man was sentenced last month in Leavenworth County District Court to nearly 10 years in prison on methpamphetamine charges.George Dobbs was sentenced July 14 to 117 months to the Department of Corrections for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. A ...
Tonganoxie USD 464 Superintendent Chris Kleidosty won’t appear in Linn County District Court again until the middle of August.Kleidosty was scheduled to appear last week for a motion to dismiss the case, but there was a continuation and the appearance was rescheduled for 9 a.m. Aug. 7 in ...
Mound City ? Tonganoxie public school Supt. Chris Kleidosty pled not guilty Wednesday in Linn County Court to charges of failure to report abuse while at a previous school district.Kleidosty also will be allowed to attend Tonganoxie school events in which his three children are participating, ...
A Tonganoxie man was sentenced earlier this week to more than 3 years in prison for drug possession and other charges.Joshua H. Pearson, 39, was sentenced Wednesday on one count possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, a severity level 5 drug felony, one count of robbery and one ...
