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Altogether, the government will have paid out nearly $17 million in claims over the scandal.
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Even as the Department of Veterans Affairs begins to lift restrictions on masks and gatherings at the cemeteries it manages, Memorial Day ceremonies at Leavenworth will be smaller than usual.
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In 1866, Cathay Williams, a newly freed Black woman from Independence, Missouri, made a historic decision: She switched her name to William Cathay, disguising herself as a man so she could become a legendary Buffalo Soldier.
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The story of Cathay Williams, a pioneer in the fight against race and gender discrimination. Growing up enslaved in Independence, Missouri, she disguised herself as a man in order to become a legendary Buffalo Soldier.
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In the turbulent years following the Civil War, around 27,000 former slaves migrated to Kansas. They called themselves "exodusters" and they were fleeing Jim Crow laws. Some of them are remembered in a portrait exhibition of an African-American community in Leavenworth, Kansas.
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Mark Wisner was convicted of aggravated sexual battery and aggravated criminal assault in 2017 and sentenced to nearly 16 years in prison.
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Multiple patients complained to the VA about the conduct of Mark Wisner, a physician assistant, during the years he treated both veterans.
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The COVID-19 case numbers started to rise at the prison just this month, and family members of people who are incarcerated there say they've been told not all staff members or inmates wear masks.
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More than 100 inmates have sought to have their convictions vacated or their sentences reduced, claiming their Sixth Amendment rights were violated.
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The lawsuits was sparked by disclosures that privileged attorney-client phone calls and meetings were recorded at the Leavenworth Detention Center.
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The case involving the veterans hospital in Leavenworth, Kansas, is being tried without a jury in federal court in Kansas City, Kansas, before U.S. District Judge Daniel D. Crabtree.
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The closure affects about 70 employees, who will be eligible to apply for other positions in Saint Luke’s metro-wide system.