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Elvin Morris(KDOC) WICHITA, Kan. (WIBW) - Kansas law enforcement agencies are searching for an escaped aggravated robbery convict who walked away from the Wichita Work Release Facility on Saturday. The Kansas Department of Corrections says it needs help to locate KDOC Inmate #93668, Elvin Eugene Morris. Morris was put on escape status around 7:50 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 2, after he failed to r...

A firefighter works a controlled burn while battling the Caldor fire in Strawberry, Calif., in August. Controlled burns are the intentional use of fire to clear away dried vegetation. Less than a month after prescribed burns were credited with saving California’s giant sequoia trees from the KNP Complex fire, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday signed legislation that will promote more of the p...

US EPA Administrator Michael Regan had removed 47 members of the agency's Science Advisory Board. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan illegally fired dozens of independent scientific advisers from two key committees earlier this year and replaced them with academics dependent on the agency for grant money, a new lawsuit claims. Stanley Young, a statistician who h...

For 22 years, Jim Cummings has served as sheriff of Barnstable County, winning reelection every six years. Cummings announced last week that he won't be running next year. He's retiring from a career in law enforcement that started back in 1974, when the young man from South Boston and Dorchester entered the State Police Academy. He joined host Sean Corcoran on Morning Edition to talk about h...

WPMI - Alabama Attorney General slams new law MUSCLE SHOALS, Ala. (WPMI) — The man accused of shooting Sgt. Nick Risner to death in Muscle Shoals last week previously served three years of a 10 year sentence for manslaughter for killing his father. Under a new law, he may have only served two. The new law allows prisoners to be released up to a year early. "We've had that law existing. This w...

WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is seeking information from multiple government agencies on reported misclassification of positions at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) that allowed staff in administrative positions to receive additional compensation reserved for law enforcement officers. The allegations ...

(Dan Cepeda, Oil City) CASPER, Wyo. — The Natrona County School District said shortly after 4 p.m. Thursday that the evacuation of Natrona County High School earlier in the afternoon was due to a report of a bomb threat. The school received report of the bomb threat at 2:15 p.m., according to the district. “Students and staff immediately evacuated the building,” NCSD added. “First Responder a...

HANOVER, Md. — After recent events in Kabul and the continued loss of life due to terrorism, many are left wondering what they can do and how they can help. Many have given money and other support to organizations helping the families of fallen servicemembers. Others support the refugees coming in by the thousands from Afghanistan. But can we stop terrorism? Unfortunately, the answer is no. W...

MONROE, La. (KNOE) - Nine employees are suing Ochsner LSU Health Monroe Medical Center over its mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy. Their attorney says the mandate is illegal. “What we are seeking is an order to prohibit Ochsner from conditioning employment on the acceptance of the vaccine,” said Jimmy Faircloth, an Alexandria-based attorney who is representing several of the plaintiffs in...

Senate President Troy Jackson, D-Allagash, recently filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Labor alleging the agency has failed to enforce immigration law and protect truckers in the U.S. logging industry from illegal Canadian competition along the northern border. An organization representing forest products businesses and a Canadian logging company have filed a federal lawsuit in an ...