TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The defense attorney for a Kansas woman accused of stealing from the credit union where she worked says his client is a good person who found herself in a difficult financial situation and made a series of bad decisions to save her farm. Forty-seven-year-old Pamela Emig of Solomon has a court […]
Read More A federal appeals court panel ruled Tuesday that a drug checkpoint ruse is not sufficient grounds to justify law enforcement authorities stopping vehicles, a decision that has far-reaching implications for the constitutional rights of motorists. The ruling is the first in the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals to grapple with the widespread practice by law […]
Read More NIC Inc. expects to settle a shareholder dispute connected to a recent Securities and Exchange Commission investigation into perks for executives, including former CEO Jeff Fraser. The lawsuit, filed in August 2010 against Olathe-based NIC (Nasdaq: EGOV), Fraser and other current and past company executives in federal court in Kansas City, Kan., alleged breach of […]
Read More A Shawnee County District Court judge has notified attorneys she is considering placing a 25-year-old man on probation rather than sentencing him to more than four years in prison for attempted solicitation via computer of a 13-year-old girl for sex. In reality, the “girl” was a sheriff’s deputy. Patrick Even Johnson, a Topekan arrested during […]
Read More The last of seven men charged in an online sex sting operation was placed on three years of intensive supervised probation Thursday rather than being sentenced to almost five years in prison. In sentencing Brandon Ryan Mason, 22, Shawnee County District Court Judge Jan Leuenberger departed downward, listing eight factors to justify the action. Mason […]
Read More Many jagged edges can be mapped in the journey from a crime being committed to a felon being sent to prison for a long time, Deputy Salina Police Chief Carson Mansfield said Tuesday. The probe into the April 16 murder of Mark Simpson found its first dead end this past weekend when the focus on […]
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