Kandiyohi County District Court

WILLMAR — The former nursing services director of Willmar Care Center, which closed last year, was convicted of felony third-degree drug possession Wednesday in Kandiyohi County District Court. Kelly Christine Silas, 37, of Topeka, Kansas, was sentenced to 20 years of probation...

WILLMAR — The Apple Valley truck driver who allegedly frightened a 13-year-old girl by passing a school bus on the right — and nearly missing the teenager while she was waiting to board the school bus — made his first appearance on misdemeanor charges Wednesday in Kandiyohi...

WILLMAR — A 29-year-old Willmar man pleaded guilty to a felony third-degree assault charge Friday stemming from a reported stabbing in July in downtown Willmar. Willmar police were called to the incident July 5 in the 400 block of Becker Avenue Southwest and found a man on the...

WILLMAR –– The Kandiyohi County Attorney’s office has notified the Eighth Judicial District Court that it intends to seek an aggravated sentencing for a suspect who allegedly stabbed his stepgrandmother earlier this summer in Willmar. In documents filed Friday, Assistant County...

WILLMAR — A woman who was the focus of a multi-state search after she was accused of taking her 4-year-old son in violation of a court order made her first appearance Friday in Kandiyohi County District Court in Willmar. Amy Lorraine Winterfeldt, formerly Amy Gomm, 44, of New London,...

WILLMAR –– A woman accused of leading police on a chase after being accused of shoplifting 12 perfume bottles at the Family Dollar Store on Litchfield Avenue in Willmar made her first appearance in court on Friday. Susie Rodriguez Luna, 47, of Willmar, is charged with a felony...

WILLMAR –– A Montrose man failed to appear Wednesday in Kandiyohi County District Court on felony charges linked to a 2013 burglary and theft from a rural Sunburg home, and an arrest warrant was issued. Michael John Walker, 46, was scheduled to make a first court appearance Wednesday...

WILLMAR –– Denise Marie Remkus, 34, of Clara City, was sentenced to 270 days in the Kandiyohi County Jail for a felony charge of driving while impaired for driving a vehicle that was involved in a property damage crash at a Willmar apartment complex in March. In June, Remkus...

WILLMAR — The man accused of leading Willmar police on a high-speed chase that ended with a crash at the local golf course faces two felonies in the matter. J. Jesus Navarez Gomez Jr., 29, appeared Monday in Kandiyohi County District Court in Willmar. He is alleged to have fled...

WILLMAR — The woman who had been the nursing services director for the former Willmar Care Center has pleaded guilty to an amended drug possession charge for having prescription drugs from the nursing home in her office. Kelly Christine Silas, 37, of Topeka, Kansas, pleaded guilty...

ST. PAUL — After the bars closed, Michael Jon Underland of Bird Island and another man argued off and on at a residence in Spicer, the last exchange ending with Underland thrusting a knife in the man’s abdomen. Underland rejected a plea agreement, and a Kandiyohi County jury...

WILLMAR — Roughly eight years after Robert Warwick penned a narrative calling his grandmother his “hero’’ for always doing the right thing, he pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in her death. Warwick, 18, pleaded guilty Wednesday in Kandiyohi County District Court in Willmar...

WILLMAR — Jury selection is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. Tuesday in the first-degree murder trial of Brok Junkermeier. Junkermeier, 19, of Willmar, is accused of murdering 79-year-old Lila Warwick in July 2013 at her home on the east edge of Willmar. In a pre-trial...

WILLMAR — One day after hearing Eugene Otto Zumhofe take the stand and deny all of the allegations of criminal sexual conduct against him, a Kandiyohi County jury returned guilty verdicts on all 12 counts. The jury returned guilty verdicts to six first-degree charges of...

WILLMAR — The murder case against Timothy Huber is now in the hands of the jury. The jury, six men and six women, received the case just after 2 p.m. this afternoon in Kandiyohi County District Court. The trial is before District Judge Donald M. Spilseth. Huber, 47, of rural...