LEAVENWORTH COUNTY, Kan. (KCTV) - A Kansas City, Kansas, man has been sentenced for his role in a high-speed pursuit last August in Leavenworth County. Thirty-two-year-old Brandon S. Alvis was ...

Leavenworth Federal Correctional Institution, pictured here in 2023, is the subject of criticism from civil rights groups and immigration attorneys who say conditions for immigrants inside are ...

Numerous Wyandotte County residents told the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas, on Thursday that they want the quality of their neighborhoods and local resources to ...

A minimum-security inmate who failed to return to a Johnson County corrections facility last week has been captured in Kansas City, Missouri. Anthony Mansfield, 36, was taken into custody without ...

A judge has blocked a private prison operator from housing immigrants facing possible deportation in a shuttered Kansas City area detention center unless it can get a permit from frustrated ...

LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) — A judge on Wednesday barred a major U.S. private prison operator from housing immigrants facing possible deportation in a shuttered Kansas City area detention center ...

A Leavenworth County District Court judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked a private prison company from housing immigrant detainees at its dormant facility in Leavenworth, Kansas, handing a ...

Outside the Leavenworth County District courthouse in Kansas’ famous prison town, David Waters, an attorney for the city, said he felt gratified by the court’s decision. “I’m looking forward to the ...

Mike Sisco and his girlfriend Karen Harkness were gunned down in her Topeka, Kansas, home in 2002. Authorities believed it was a crime of passion. Sisco's daughter set out to help prove it was her ...

Scott Peterson (center), Leavenworth city manager, and attorneys for the city David Waters, left, and Joseph Hatley, spoke to the media after winning a victory in Leavenworth County District Court ...

LEAVENWORTH — A Kansas district court barred CoreCivic Wednesday from reopening its shuttered prison until the company goes through Leavenworth’s development process to receive a special use permit.