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Chelsea Manning files to run for U.S. Senate in Maryland Chelsea Manning, the transgender former Army private who was convicted of passing sensitive government documents to Wikileaks, has filed to run for the U.S. Senate in Maryland, according to federal election filings. Alert About Missile Bound for Hawaii Was Sent in Error, Officials Say - The Hawaii Emergency Management Agency confirmed on Saturday that there was no ballistic missile headed toward the state, minutes after an emergency alert was sent to cellphones urging people to seek immediate shelter.
In Kansas Supreme Court, convicted killers Jonathan Daniel Carr and Reginald Dexter Carr Jr. sought life in prison Thursday rather than death penalties.
In this July 7, 2016 file photo, Scott Roeder appears in court in Wichita, Kan. Roeder, who was convicted in 2010 in the murder of Kansas abortion provider George Tiller, will have to serve at least 25 years of a life sentence before becoming eligible for parole.
A Dallas woman accused of killing a Wichita mother and taking her baby was in the country illegally when she was released from a Kansas jail this summer before immigration officials had a chance to request she be held, law enforcement authorities said Wednesday. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not receive the July 25 list of arrests from the Sedgwick County sheriff's office showing Yesenia Sesmas' name on it until the following day, and by that time she had already been released from local custody, said ICE spokesman Carl Rusnok.
FBI Special Agent in Charge Eric Jackson talks about the FBI's roll in stopping a bomb plot. Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall announced Friday a major federal investigation stopped a domestic terrorism plot by a militia group to detonate a bomb at a Garden City apartment complex where a number of Somalis live.Two Liberal men and a Dodge City resident were arrested and charged in federal court with domestic terrorism charges, Beall told reporters at a news conference in downtown Wichita.
In criticizing the Sedgwick County Commission's decision to restore the Community Health Improvement Plan coordinator, commissioners Richard Ranzau and Karl Peterjohn find name-calling helpful: "Nanny-state progressives" and "nanny-state drones" . Their name-calling is as uninformed as it is unimaginative.
Whatever the weather in Kansas on Friday and beyond, governments around the state will operate in more sunshine. That's because of the new state law that considers public officials' e-mails about public business to be public records, even if they're sent using private e-mail accounts or personal devices.
Matt Riedl, reporter for The Wichita Eagle, recaps the search efforts to find an 11-year-old boy who was swept by high waters in Gypsum Creek shortly before 7:30 p.m. Friday. Rescuers continued to search into Saturday evening.