Officers with El Dorado Police and the Butler County Sheriff’s Department responded to the intersection of Taylor Street and Locust Avenue for a report of an injury accident. Upon arrival, ...

EL DORADO, Kan. (KSNW) – A man was arrested after allegedly robbing a bank in El Dorado on Thursday. The El Dorado Police Department says that they were dispatched alongside the Butler County ...

Brooks Vonthaer of Topeka died Tuesday in his cell at the El Dorado prison. Kansas officials are accusing his cellmate of killing him.

A 34-year-old man is suspected of killing his cellmate at El Dorado Correctional Facility, according to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation. Brooks Robinson Vonthaer was found unresponsive in his cell ...

EL DORADO, Kan. (KCTV) - A 40-year-old inmate at the El Dorado Correctional Facility has died. The State of Kansas said Brooks Vonthaer died Tuesday, Oct. 22.

When the Kansas Department of Corrections opened a newly constructed Lansing Correctional Facility in Lansing, Kansas, in 2020 it meant the old, stone-walled prison building that housed inmates ...

The El Dorado Correctional Facility says one of its inmates died Monday morning.

The Kansas Department of Corrections and Kansas Bureau of Investigation are investigating the death of an inmate at the El Dorado Correctional Facility Friday night.

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — A new warden took over at El Dorado Correctional Facility (EDCF) this week. The Kansas Department of Corrections (KDOC) said Tommy Williams began serving as the warden … ...

The Kansas Department of Corrections said a 65-year-old inmate at the El Dorado Correctional Facility died Monday (Jan.4) after testing positive for COVID-19.

The Department of Corrections said Monday that it expects the El Dorado Correctional Facility to return to a regular schedule of five, eight-hour days a week for officers in early October.

Kansas corrections officers at the state prison in El Dorado will soon return to eight-hour shifts after a months-long emergency declaration meant mandatory overtime and 12-hour days.