Leavenworth County prosecutors have filed eight charges against a 64-year-old Tonganoxie man who is accused of sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl during a two-year period ending earlier in February.Leavenworth County Attorney Todd Thompson said the defendant appeared in court ...
A onetime Officer of the Year in the Lansing Police Department was charged Thursday with attempting to entice a minor for illicit sex.William Brian Duncan, 40, of Leavenworth, a former Lansing police officer and school board member, was charged in federal court, said Beth Phillips, United ...
A 27-year-old Topeka man was sentenced to the maximum one year in jail following his seventh DUI offense.David B. Matthews was sentenced Friday in Leavenworth County District Court. The sentence will run consecutively with two convictions in Shawnee County for a total of two years, where he ...
A former teacher in Leavenworth County, who pleaded guilty to having sex with a high school student, has been sentenced to three years probation.A Leavenworth County District Court judge sentenced Shannon Young, 36, on Wednesday to three years probation and an 18-month suspended prison ...
In what the judge and prosecutor agreed was a cautionary tale for changing times, a Tonganoxie husband and wife were each fined $2,000 and received one-year suspended sentences for hosting a party at which alcohol was available to minors.Julie Whaler, 47, and Richard Whaler, 44, were each fined ...
A teacher at a Leavenworth County high school has pleaded guilty to three counts of voluntary, unlawful sexual relations with a student.Shannon Young, 36, plead guilty as charged to all three counts of unlawful voluntary sexual relations with a then 17-year-old student at Pleasant Ridge High ...
Kansas Supreme Court Chief Justice Robert E. Davis announced Tuesday morning that he was resigning — effective immediately — because of health reasons.In a letter to Gov. Mark Parkinson, Davis said his decision had been difficult.“But it is a choice I make in the best interest of the ...
A Leavenworth resident has pleaded guilty to charges related to an incident in which he threatened to kill customers and workers at the Leavenworth Kmart.Oliver Gillom Jr., 26, pled guilty Wednesday in Leavenworth County District Court to charges of aggravated assault, criminal threat, felony ...
Gary F. Wells, 65, and Arlie M. Wells, 64, are charged with five counts of bank fraud. In addition, Allie Wells is charged with three counts of money laundering. The crimes are alleged to have occurred from Aug. 2, 2005, through June 5, 2006, in Leavenworth County.The indictment alleges the ...
A Leavenworth man has pleaded guilty to murdering a four-year-old child.Jason Lee Jones, 33, pleaded guilty Friday in Leavenworth County District Court to one count of second degree murder and one count of abuse of a child. The boy died from blunt force trauma Oct. 4, 2009 while the child’s ...
