A Wyandotte County commission candidate will avoid jail time by pleading guilty to reduced charges of disorderly conduct following an incident last year in Topeka.
In what he said was a first in his eight years on the bench, a Hennepin County judge rejected a plea deal — in this case a carjacker and repeat robber who had "too many victims" to justify a sentence of probation and a year in the workhouse. District Judge Paul Scoggin said in court Wednesday that he could not agree to the Hennepin County Attorney's proposed sentence for Dorian Flowers, 20, in .
A federal judge sentenced a Santan man to 17-and-a-half years in prison and five years of supervised probation on Monday for killing a women within the Gila River Indian Reservation several years ago.
A former Colorado police officer who put a handcuffed woman in a parked police vehicle that was hit by a freight train, causing the woman to suffer serious injuries, has avoided a jail sentence and must instead serve 30 months on supervised probation. Jordan Steinke, 29, was sentenced Friday by Weld County District Court Judge Timothy Kerns, who found her guilty of reckless endangerment and assault for the Sept. 16, 2022, crash near Platteville. Kerns acquitted the former Fort Lupton police offi