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A Leavenworth woman has been bound over on a second-degree murder charge. A judge made the decision to bind over the case of Eva Banks, 40, Wednesday afternoon at the conclusion of a preliminary hearing.

A judge said he plans to make a decision in former President Donald Trump’s fight to avoid being questioned under oath in a New York investigation into his business practices. New York Attorney General Letitia James is seeking to enforce subpoenas her office issued in December to Trump and his two eldest children, Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr.

A Leavenworth man has pleaded guilty to two counts of rape involving a child victim, according to a prosecution official. Jonathan L.

Two former corrections officers at the Leavenworth Detention Center admitted Tuesday that they smuggled drugs and other contraband into the prison for inmates, federal prosecutors said. Jacqueline Sifuentes, 26, of Laredo, Texas, admitted smuggling contraband including methamphetamine, marijuana and tobacco into the prison in exchange for bribes from an inmate.

Homicide detectives in Kansas City are investigating after police found an elementary school-aged child dead inside a home and arrested a woman there. The investigation stems from a call to police late Tuesday night reporting a disturbance at a home in the Noble and Gregory Ridge neighborhood just east of U.S.

Detectives have launched a homicide investigation after a man was found shot to death early Wednesday morning inside an apartment in Kansas City, Kansas. Police said they were called to the apartment around 3:30 a.m.

Missouri’s GOP-led House has advanced a proposal to allow lawmakers to defund Medicaid expansion, which would effectively undo voters’ recent decision to increase access to the government health care program.

Two abortion providers in Oklahoma said they’re still seeing a massive influx of women from Texas who want to terminate their pregnancies after Texas last year passed the most restrictive anti-abortion law in the U.S. in decades.