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An employee of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Kansas City Division has been arrested after being indicted for allegedly taking numerous national security documents from the federal agency and storing them – sometimes for years – in her home. The Department of Justice has identified the worker as Kendra Kingsbury, 48, of Dodge City, Kansas. She was named in a two-count indictment from a federal grand jury that was issued under seal, and released when Kingsbury was arrested. "As an intelligence analyst for the FBI, the defendant was entrusted with access to sensitive government materials," said Assistant Attorney General John...

A West Kansas Republican mayor announced in a letter to city officials and on social media on Tuesday that she was resigning, effective immediately, over threats she received after publicly supporting a tenure of mask. Dodge City Mayor Joyce Warshaw said she was concerned for her safety after facing assaults, including threats by phone and email, after being quoted Friday in a USA Today article supporting the warrant, reported the Dodge City Globe. The city commission voted 4-1 on November 16 to impose a mask mandate, with a few exceptions. But Warshaw told NBC News on Tuesday that “threats, accusations...

A Kansas mayor announced Tuesday she has resigned over threats she’s been receiving after publicly supporting the city’s COVID-19 mask mandate. Dodge City Mayor Joyce Warshaw told USA Today she feared for her safety after residents threatened her over the phone and email. “I understand people are under a lot of pressure from various things that are happening around society like the pandemic, the politics, the economy, so on and so forth, but I also believe that during these times people are acting not as they normally would,” Warshaw told the outlet. “I think it’s best for me and the...

While watching an old episode of "Gunsmoke" this morning I heard this little gem spoken by U.S. Marshall Matt Dillon. I found it so interesting I wrote it down. I suppose it is open to interpretation but in the context of what Donald Trump has been talking about since day one on rebuilding our military it kind of makes sense. Kind of like another line from a movie I saw years ago called "Speechless" where these two guys are running for the U.S. Senate in the southwest on the border with Mexico. The dividing live on the border was this...

Minnesota is one of a few states that track crimes committed by Concealed Carry permit holders.  When the Minnesota law was passed, an annual report of crimes committed by permit holders was required.  The Minnesota permit is simply a permit to carry, the law does not discriminate between carrying concealed and carrying openly.  Reports for the law are available for 2003, and 2005-2012 in pdf files.   The number of people with Minnesota permits that commit murder or manslaughter is remarkably low.  Only three instances are recorded in the Minnesota Carry Permit annual reports for the nine years reported....

James Arness, who burnished the legend of America’s epic West as Marshal Matt Dillon, the laconic peacemaker of Dodge City on “Gunsmoke,” one of the longest-running dramatic series in television history, died on Friday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 88. A family spokeswoman, Ginny Fazer, confirmed the death. Mr. Arness was terribly shy and had almost no training as an actor. A wartime leg wound made it painful for him to mount a horse. But he became the best-known tin star of his era, portraying the towering, weathered marshal for 20 years, from 1955 to 1975. He...

Changes in Meatpacking Industry Remake Rural U.S. Towns in New Immigration Frontier DODGE CITY, Kan. - This is the home of Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson, of Boot Hill and the Long Branch Saloon, of cattle drives, buffalo hunters and the romance of the American West. But that's the Dodge City of yesteryear. Today, downtown has Mexican restaurants and stores more reminiscent of shops south of the border than Main Street Kansas. The city of 25,176 even has a new nickname: "Little Mexico." Signs advertising "Envios a Mexico" -- retail outlets where workers send hard-earned wages back home to Mexico...

DODGE CITY, Kan. (AP) -- This is the home of Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson, of Boot Hill and the Long Branch Saloon, of cattle drives, buffalo hunters and the romance of the American West. But that's the Dodge City of yesteryear. ADVERTISEMENT Today, downtown has Mexican restaurants and stores more reminiscent of shops south of the border than Main Street Kansas. The city of 25,176 even has a new nickname: "Little Mexico." Signs advertising "Envios a Mexico" -- retail outlets where workers send hard-earned wages back home to Mexico and other countries -- hang outside many Dodge City stores....

Dodge City's own James ‘Dog’ Kelley The unbearable truth about Paddy By Kathie Bell Assistant Curator, Boot Hill Museum, Inc. Early Dodge City was known for the buffalo and later for its cattle drives, but did you know Dodge had its very own bear? Paddy's life in Dodge City was short. He was captured as a black bear cub in Indian Territory – what is now known as Oklahoma –and brought to Dodge City in 1880. He was given to mayor and restaurateur James "Dog" Kelley. Kelley was an avid hunter who had served under General Custer. In appreciation for...

DODGE CITY, Kan. (AP) -- Dodge City has a rich history as an Old West frontier town, where cowboys and gunslingers could take a break from the trail and get their fill of saloons and brothels. Today, the tidy town built on meatpacking and rodeos is again plagued by gunfighters. But this time, they're in street gangs, some of which have second-generation members as young as 11. The drug of choice is methamphetamine, and the weapons range from automatic rifles to baseball bats.

DODGE CITY - On Monday, John Martin, a meatpacker here, plans to skip work to attend a rally aimed at bolstering the call for immigration reform. "We want the work we do to be valued," he explained. "It's hard work in the plant." Fellow meatpacker David Gunion seconds that, wondering what would become of the plant without the workers, many of them immigrants. "Without us, the plant dies," he said. Fliers, e-mails and text messages are circulating like wildfire around southwest Kansas, calling on the zone's sizable Latino population to rally, skip work, skip school and boycott stores Monday to...

An Ecumenical Day focusing on justice for immigrants will draw U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback and local religious leaders from Catholic, Episcopal, Methodist, Lutheran and Presbyterian churches to the Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe on April 18. The large gathering that will begin at 9:30 a.m. and end at 4:30 p.m. will be open to the general public. Pre-registration is required by Monday. A Kansas Republican, Brownback joined Democrats as part of a bipartisan coalition on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee voting recently to clear the way for 11 million illegal aliens to seek U.S. citizenship. The committee voted against...

The headline on the front page of Friday's New York Post was pure tabloid: "Dodge City. Rape and anarchy in New Orleans." The story accompanying the headline details the chaos and despair engulfing New Orleans as its residents try to recover from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. But Dodge City is not mentioned anywhere in the story. Ford County Clerk Vicki Wells said she was not aware of the headline and story until late Friday afternoon, when a Globe reporter brought them to her attention. She said once she read the headline, she felt disgusted. "The implication that Dodge City...

Cowboys, wannabes set out on 650-mile trail ride BY T.A. BADGER Associated Press Writer BANDERA, Texas - Dozens of cowboys and wannabes hitched up their horses and wagons in this Hill Country town on Monday and pointed them north along a historic route used by 19th-century cattle drovers to get their beef to market. The hardy travelers plan to take seven weeks to cover the 650 miles from Bandera, the self-proclaimed Cowboy Capital of the World, to the famed Wild West outpost of Dodge City, Kan. The ride will follow what was known as the Western Trail, along which millions...

USD 220 Superintendent Jerry Cullen said Tuesday he was upset that lawmakers did not approve a school finance plan for 2004-2005, but he was glad a Shawnee County District Court judge had scolded them for failing to act. "I'm glad he came down hard on them, because they really disappointed me," Cullen said Tuesday. "I really thought we had enough people in the House and Senate that they would step up to the plate and do the right thing. Unfortunately, I was wrong." Along with other educators in southwest Kansas, Cullen was studying Shawnee County District Judge Terry Bullock's newest...