The Fort Leavenworth Spouses’ Club will help recognize and celebrate some of the post’s historic homes and architecturally ...

CoreCivic and the city of Leavenworth are in a legal dispute over the required permits for reopening a private immigration detention center. Leavenworth argues that CoreCivic needs a new permit ...

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Emily Curiel ecuriel@kcstar.com CoreCivic, the second largest private prison company in America, is seeking to reactivate a shuttered facility in Leavenworth as a U.S. Immigration and Customs ...

THANK YOU. JASON. NEW AT SIX. A FORT DODGE MAN FOUND GUILTY FOR HIS FATHER’S DEATH HAS BEEN SENTENCED TO FIVE YEARS IN PRISON. HONORIO RODRIGUEZ WAS CHARGED WITH FIRST DEGREE MURDER IN 2023 FOR ...

A Fort Myers man has been sentenced to five years in prison after a jury found he hit a rider on the head at a North Fort Myers bus station. Darrell Cornell Williams, 57, was arrested in August ...

CoreCivic argues that its empty, non-operational facility — which hasn’t held a single detainee going on four years — somehow counts as continually in use. CoreCivic argues that its empty ...

LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (KCTV) - A Leavenworth man is going to prison after attempting to flee from police, on a bicycle. On Feb. 6, officers in the area of Shawnee and North 10th Streets saw a man ...

Beryl Lerch Dowling, 80, beloved wife of Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.) Frank Dowling of Fulton High School, Class of 1960, passed away peacefully on April 22, 2025. Born and raised in the Red Bank ...