Community and law-enforcement are coming together to make a safer southeast Kansas. Over the past several weeks, the Cherokee ...

A sheriff in Oklahoma, five of her deputies and several other staff members resigned this week in protest of a judge’s order to reopen a county jail that they had deemed unsafe. Oklahoma sheriff and ...

A former Cherokee County corrections officer has been arrested after she was accused of bringing prohibited substances into a correctional facility. According to Cherokee County Sheriff's Office, ...

Kelvin Wayne Simmons, 48, was indicted Oct. 7 on eight federal charges after law enforcement say he shot and killed a Cherokee County detention officer while escaping custody. Meanwhile, his state ...