TOPEKA — The U.S. District Court of Appeals reversed Friday the false-statement conviction of a former University of Kansas tenured professor and brought to an end deconstruction of the federal government’s prosecution of the chemical…

ANGKOK (AP) — A plane with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange departed Bangkok after refueling Tuesday and he is on the way to Saipan to enter a plea deal with the U.S. government that will free…

FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — An Italian court reconvicted Amanda Knox of slander Wednesday, quashing her hope of removing a legal stain against her that has persisted after her exoneration in the brutal 2007 murder of…

TOPEKA —About 150,000 people who had some form of interaction with Kansas courts might have had their data breached in the October cyberattack that took the judicial system offline for weeks. The Office of Judicial…

IOLA MUNICIPAL COURT Judge Patti Boyd Convicted as follows with fines assessed: Allen S. Blackburn, Piqua, possession of marijuana, $515, diversion Melissa Bradley-Bryant, Iola, dog running at large, number of animals allowed, interference with animal…

Fathers and sons share countless experiences, but few have the opportunity to be sworn in simultaneously before the United States Supreme Court. The duo, 31st Judicial District Chief Judge Hon. Daniel D. Creitz and his…

TOPEKA — Transgender Kansans are challenging a district court’s ban on changing driver’s license gender markers as the courts try to determine the full scope of a divisive and vague law governing the state’s transgender…

PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan jury convicted a school shooter’s mother of involuntary manslaughter Tuesday in a first-of-its-kind trial to determine whether she had any responsibility in the deaths of four students in 2021.…

IOLA MUNICIPAL COURT Judge Patti Boyd Convicted as follows with fines assessed: Phillip E. Bolton, Iola, dog running at large, $2,010 Melissa Bradley-Bryant, Iola, animal nuisance, dog running at large, $255 Kyle H. Brinkerhoff, Iola,…

Judge Patti Boyd Convicted as follows with fines assessed: Clyde E. Hoggatt, Iola, theft, two counts of criminal damage, $1,415, probation Walter J. Palmisano, Bronson, theft, $362, probation Rebecca A. Stewart, Iola, theft, $315, probation