GREAT BEND — More than 44 years after a nursing student was slain in her trailer home in central Kansas, her former neighbor has been sentenced to 10 to 25 years in prison for killing her. The investigation into the Jan. 24, 1980, shooting death of Mary Robin Walter, 23, of Great Bend, had ...
If you've ever been curious about how legal appeals are argued and heard, you'll have a convenient opportunity to find out on Tuesday, when judges from the Kansas Court of Appeals, which normally sits in Topeka, will hear a few cases at the University of Kansas. A three-judge panel from the ...
A man's preliminary hearing for attempted murder began dramatically Friday with the alleged victim, before the judge even took the bench, claiming loudly and profanely to the gallery that she was never going to testify and begging repeatedly to leave. She nevertheless was called as the first ...
An employee of an elder care facility in Lawrence was ordered to stand trial Friday after a judge found probable cause to believe that she had mistreated and stolen thousands of dollars from a resident at the facility. The defendant, Honesty Trussell, faces felony charges of mistreatment of a ...
A 25-year-old Lawrence man who reportedly sold 100 fentanyl pills in a single buy to a confidential informant was sentenced to more than eight years in prison Friday in Douglas County District Court. “Every single pill is a potential death,” prosecutor David Greenwald told Judge Amy Hanley ...
A felony charge against a man accused of choking a woman was dismissed Thursday after the victim became uncooperative and failed to appear at the defendant’s preliminary hearing. The defendant, Timothy Lamont Joseph Cable, 29, had faced a charge of aggravated domestic battery, but Judge Amy ...