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FILE - A photo of Charles Adair, a man killed when a deputy kneeled on his back in a Kansas jail, is displayed Sunday, Sept. 23, 2025, at a news conference held by his family and their attorneys at Friendship Baptist Church in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Heather Hollingsworth, File)

Kansas deputy charged with murder knelt on inmate for 1 minute and 26 seconds

October 3, 2025

Court records show that a white Kansas sheriff’s deputy charged with murder in the death of a Black jail inmate shoved his knee into the cuffed man’s back for 86 seconds after he was wheeled back to his cell from the infirmary. Richard Fatherly was charged last month with second-degree murder and an alternative count of involuntary manslaughter in Charles Adair’s July 5 death in the Wyandotte County detention center. Adair had been arrested on misdemeanor warrants and was taken to the hospital because of a severe leg infection. After returning to jail, he got into an argument with the deputy. The autopsy listed his death as homicide caused by mechanical asphyxia.

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FILE - Taylor Swift gets a kiss from Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce as they arrive to watch play between Jannik Sinner, of Italy, and Taylor Fritz, of the United States, during the men's singles final of the U.S. Open tennis championships, Sept. 8, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

Dispatcher shakes it off after announcing Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s engagement over scanner

August 27, 2025

A day after Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce announced their engagement, some wild details are emerging about how folks spread the news. A dispatcher in Michigan accidentally announced it over the police scanner. One major business broke the news over email, lightheartedly suggesting that workers check their social media feeds and debate potential wedding playlists. And oddsmakers are now taking bets on when and where the superstar singer and the star tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs will wed. Swifties can even bet on the flavor of the wedding cake.

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A judge has halted CoreCivic, on Wednesday, June 4, 2025, from housing immigrants facing possible deportation in a shuttered facility that the private prison operator now calls the Midwest Regional Reception Center, in Leavenworth, Kan., pictured Monday, March 3, 2025, unless it can get a permit from frustrated city officials. (AP Photo/Nick Ingram)

Judge blocks private prison operator from housing ICE detainees at shuttered Kansas center

June 4, 2025

A judge has blocked a private prison operator from housing immigrants facing possible deportation in a shuttered Kansas City area detention center unless it can get a permit from frustrated city officials. Leavenworth County Judge John Bryant agreed Wednesday to grant the city of Leavenworth’s request for a temporary restraining order after a packed courtroom hearing. CoreCivic is one of the nation’s largest private prison operators. It had claimed in legal filings that halting the opening of the 1,033-bed facility would cost it $4.2 million in revenue each month. City officials told the judge they expected the arrival of migrants apprehended by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was imminent.

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