Original Source CJ Online This case has been updated Video and audio recorded statements made to law enforcement officers by a former corrections officer charged with the sexual assault of a 5-year-old won’t be allowed in court, a Shawnee County judge ruled Monday. District Court Judge Cheryl Kingfisher also ruled that all polygraph-related evidence collected […]
As more states decriminalize marijuana, a burgeoning domestic pot industry has transformed the quality and potency of the weed now hitting the streets – not only in western states that have made it legal to smoke it, but in neighboring states like Kansas that have become reluctant way stations for the high-grade marijuana flowing across […]
WICHITA — When Pamela Emig and her husband faced a threatened foreclosure on their land and cattle operation, they filed for bankruptcy. But the Kansas couple then found themselves unable to sell any cattle while in bankruptcy, yet had no money to feed the animals without a line of credit, according to court filings. In […]
(HERINGTON, Kan.) A drunk driving accident leaves a Herington man with only one leg and a lot of frustration with the law. “The fact that it’s a simple slap on the wrist really aggravates me!,” said Donnie Warren. Kansas State legislators are looking at changing that. But it’s too late to change anything for Warren. […]
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 […]
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 […]