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CASA?in search of volunteer advocates in Leavenworth County

The First Judicial District Court Appointed Special Advocate Association is currently accepting applications for volunteer training to take place in October. CASA volunteers are needed to advocate for abused and neglected children in the court system, supervise contact between non-custodial ...

CASA seeking volunteers to be advocates for abused and neglected children

The First Judicial District Court Appointed Special Advocate Association is currently accepting applications for volunteer training to take place in October. CASA volunteers are needed to advocate for abused and neglected children in the court system, supervise contact between non-custodial ...

Tonganoxie man faces charges stemming from car chase through downtown area

A Tonganoxie man has been charged in Leavenworth County District Court following a car chase this past week through downtown Tonganoxie.Timothy Ryan Detrick, 35, Tonganoxie faces charges of criminal threat, fleeing or eluding with five or more moving violations, criminal damage to property, not ...

Tonganoxie man sentenced to 23 years for rape, indecent liberties with child

A Leavenworth County judge Friday sentenced a 37-year-old Tonganoxie man to serve 23 years in prison.Edward Everitt Peel Jr. had pleaded guilty in May to rape, aggravated indecent liberties with a child, attempted aggravated indecent liberties with a child and indecent solicitation of a child. ...

Bonner resident gets life for molesting preteen

Leavenworth ? A Bonner Springs man has been sentenced to life in prison for sexually abusing a preteen four years ago in Lansing.Stephen Michael Russell, 36, was sentenced Friday in Leavenworth County District Court.Judge Gunnar Sundby ordered the prison sentence after a jury in March convicted ...

Linwood man, sentenced to life for child rape, gets stricter bond conditions

A Linwood man sentenced to life in prison for child rape late last year, currently out of jail on a $400,000 appeal bond, has been placed under supervision and ordered to stay away from children and places frequented by children, as a condition of his bond.A Leavenworth County District Court ...

Phony war hero indicted for fraud in Fort Leavenworth construction projects

When the economy slowed down and construction jobs started drying up, Warren K. Parker had an idea for getting more business. Pretend to be a wounded war hero, create a company called Silver Star Construction and bid on jobs reserved for companies owned by true service-disabled veterans, ...

Tonganoxie man, 37, pleads guilty to raping young girl

A 37-year-old Tonganoxie man pleaded guilty to child rape and three other counts Friday for molesting a girl when she was first 6 years old, Leavenworth County Attorney Todd Thompson said.Edward Everitt Peel Jr. entered the pleas in Leavenworth County District Court, and Thompson said Peel is ...

Bribery, conspiracy charges filed against former prison worker

A federal grand jury has indicted a Lansing woman for allegedly taking bribes and providing tobacco to inmates in 2008 while she worked at the U.S. Penitentiary at Leavenworth.The indictment, handed up this week in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Kan., charges Cheryl Gilbert, 44, Lansing, ...