May 17, 2017 Chelsea Manning freed from Kansas military prison Pvt. Chelsea Manning, the transgender soldier convicted of giving classified government materials to WikiLeaks, was freed from a Kansas military prison early Wednesday morning after serving seven years of her 35-year sentence.
May 15, 2017 Chelsea Manning to remain in Army, receive health care benefits after prison release Chelsea Manning will remain on active duty following her release from military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas on May 17, the U.S. Army said Sunday.
May 1, 2017 4 dead, including gunman, after shooting at Topeka home Police say four men are dead — including the suspected gunman — after a shooting at a home in Topeka, Kansas, that is part of a private business providing in-home care for people with special needs.
April 29, 2017 Videos reportedly show gruesome abuse of young Kansas boy The maternal grandmother of a 7-year-old Kansas boy whose remains were found in a pigsty says she has seen videos that detail gruesome abuse the boy suffered at the hands of his father and stepmother.
April 26, 2017 Police to use DNA to identify man found encased in concrete Investigators say DNA from the mother of a missing Missouri man could help to determine if it was his body found encased in concrete inside a dumpster in a storage unit.
April 26, 2017 Lawsuits: Missouri jail stunk like a sewer Two men once detained at the Jackson County jail have filed separate lawsuits saying sewage frequently backed up in their cells and the stench was so intense at times that they could not sleep.
April 26, 2017 Some high plains farmers struggling after fires, drought Deep snow is melting into Western mountain streams, but some farmers and ranchers on the high plains are struggling amid a lengthy dry spell and the aftermath of destructive wildfires.
April 23, 2017 Woman whose 10-year-old daughter was killed in 1999 loses second daughter to murder Kansas police announced Sunday the capture of a man who they say murdered a woman near the playground named for the victim's sister -- who was just 10 when she was abducted and killed in 1999.
April 21, 2017 Homicide victim was sister of girl abducted, killed in 1999 A Kansas City, Kansas, homicide victim has been identified as the sister of a girl whose kidnapping 17 years earlier sparked a massive manhunt before she was found dead in Missouri.
April 20, 2017 Chelsea Manning tweets about impending prison release With less than a month before her scheduled freedom, Chelsea Manning on Thursday tweeted her thoughts about getting out of prison after former President Obama commuted her sentence.