Northeast Kansas jurors in the second trial of a man facing a string of sexual assault charges that have divided the small town of Holton heard testimony from one of his accusers.

A judge has dismissed an assault charge against a southeastern Missouri sheriff being investigated in the death of a Tennessee inmate but ordered him tried on a robbery count.

A Kansas City, Missouri, man is jailed on $150,000 bond after being accused of a drug-related shooting death of a man he thought was a demon.

A southwestern Missouri man who spent nearly two decades in mental hospitals for a conviction of a 1997 sexual assault of a teenage girl has been ordered freed after genetic evidence exonerated him.

Two southwestern Missouri people have been sentenced to federal prison and ordered to repay roughly $24,000 for their roles in a scheme to cash checks stolen from mailboxes.

Oklahoma’s prison system director has told the state’s prisons board that Oklahoma’s prisons are in trouble.

Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran says he is pleased with the delay in the U.S. Senate’s debate on a Republican bill to overhaul health care.

Experts say invasive zebra mussels have been found at Lake Travis in Central Texas.

A federal prosecutor in Kansas who said in court last year that she never listened to attorney-client phone calls at the Leavenworth Detention Center has left the U.S. Attorney’s Office after admitting to her…