(AP) — An Arkansas man accused of killing a 16-year-old girl he met online is slated to go on trial this summer after authorities found her body in a blue, plastic barrel. During a brief hearing Tuesday, court clerks say Lloyd Jones' trial is ...

A group of shift supervisors at a private prison in central Kentucky has sued Corrections ... The lawsuit is similar to a suit filed in federal court in Kansas that sought to certify a class of assistant shift supervisors at CCA's 65 facilities ...

LANSING, Kan. (WTW) — A convicted child sex offender who escaped from a northeastern Kansas prison three weeks ago has been captured in Kansas City, Kan. State corrections officials say 59-year-old Gary Leslie Furthmyer was taken into custody at 2 p.m. Wednesday.

The trial would hear every hillbilly cliche, including "down by the mudhole," where Franklin had taken his gal, Tillar Ruminer, 16, to court her ... an archivist for the Central Arkansas Library System. "The Great Depression was already well ...

A Southeast Kansas man will spend the next seven years in prison on meth charges.

(WTW) — A north-central Kansas teenager has pleaded guilty to soliciting a friend ... He faces up to 10 years in prison at sentencing, scheduled for Aug. 13. According to court documents, Hedstrom was working at Citizens National Bank in Concordia ...

(AP) — More than 160 current and former employees and family members are suing the federal prison agency over ailments they ... the program to other facilities in New Jersey, Kansas, California, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Texas and Ohio.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Supreme Court says a Kansas woman can be sent to jail for refusing to testify against the Nebraska man she has accused of sexual assault. The woman had refused to testify, saying it would shame her and her family.

(AP) — Three Arkansas football players ... Records from the Washington County Jail indicate the players have a court hearing on Monday. The records do not indicate whether they have attorneys. Smith was hired April 23 to replace Petrino, and the former ...

In court pleadings, the NHCLU said that authorities in Kansas ... ordinance when he visited Franklin police to register as a sex offender. Nearly three decades ago, Thomas spent three years in a Massachusetts prison for sexual contact with ...

An Arkansas senator who lost his re-election bid in Tuesday's primary is asking a federal court to prevent state election officials from certifying the election results while judges consider his redistricting lawsuit.

That ended a 61-year-old mystery of what became of Green at the prison camp known as Death Valley. Green was born in Norman, where he went to high school, and had worked in the family's west Arkansas sawmill. During World War II, he fought in the North ...

Iasis is looking to acquire a struggling hospital in Arkansas ... a consultant at Franklin-based Spectrum Health Partners, who assumed operational control of the hospital Monday. A Circuit Court Judge recently appointed Spencer to, according ...

The protesters had to leave the parking lot because the city says it needs the space for buses during Arkansas Riverfest over the Memorial ... was being violated and that he planned to pursue a court challenge. Occupy Little Rock isn't incorporated ...

Richard Buchli was convicted in 2002 of first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the killing Richard Armitage, 49, in their downtown Kansas City law office. He was sentenced to life in prison. That conviction was thrown out in 2006 by a Jackson ...

(WTW) — House members rejected an amendment Tuesday that would have restricted the types of inmates the Kansas Department of Corrections could house in county jails. The proposal was in response to the escape in April of four state prison inmates who ...

Jay Nixon’s intent to veto the bill are called into question by Franklin County Presiding Commissioner John Griesheimer. House Bill 1329 would reverse a January Supreme Court ruling that ... (located southeast of Kansas City) contacted The Missourian ...

(AP) — Three Arkansas football players ... Records from the Washington County Jail indicate the players have a court hearing on Monday. The records do not indicate whether they have attorneys. Smith was hired April 23 to replace Petrino, and the former ...

A newlywed was being held on a murder charge Wednesday after his pregnant wife staggered into a western Arkansas police station ... because the baby died after Herring was booked into jail, Grubbs said. Formal charges are expected later this ...

Nearly two dozen members of a Hispanic gang were arrested in Kansas this week under a federal grand jury ... A RICO conviction has a maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison without parole and a $250,000 fine. The maximum sentence for ...

Arpaio's office is accused of punishing Hispanic jail inmates for speaking Spanish and launching ... "People come (to Arizona) from other places and want to make it like Kansas or Nebraska," said Bustamante, who said he's a fourth-generation ...

(AP) — A man has been arrested on a murder charge after his pregnant wife who had been stabbed in the chest staggered into a police station in western Arkansas and collapsed ... and has no attorney listed in jail records.