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Capital City Food Truck Festival to return in June, will feature 20 food trucks

An event that drew more than four times the expected amount of people last June will be rolling back in to Topeka. The second annual Capital City Family and Food Truck Festival will be June 11 and feature almost twice as many trucks as last year. → Read More

Upcoming live blog: Kansas Supreme Court to hear arguments Tuesday morning in school finance case

The Kansas Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Tuesday morning about whether a law signed earlier this year makes school funding more equitable. In February the court ruled the state's school finance formula was unconstitutional because of the inequalities between funding for rich and poor districts. The court gave the the Legislature a June 30 deadline to fix the system. → Read More

Live blog: Shawnee County D.A. announcement

Details were few in a press release planning a media conference with the Shawnee County District Attorney Friday. The conference will be held at 1:30 p.m. at the Shawnee County Courthouse where Shawnee County D.A. Chad Taylor is expected to speak. Follow the live blog below for updates. → Read More

Shawnee County Sheriff's Office plan to conduct DUI check lanes Saturday

The Shawnee County Sheriff's Office will conduct sobriety check lanes beginning at 10:30 p.m. Saturday and ending 2:30 a.m. Sunday. → Read More

Inspection: Topeka Zoo has one month to replace window in orangutan exhibit

Federal inspectors say the Topeka Zoo has one month to fix a worn window overlooking its orangutan exhibit, which could lead to injury to one of the animals if it's not fixed. → Read More

Live blog: Kansas Avenue Redevelopment celebration promised to be 'epic'

Downtown Topeka Inc. will be revealing its plans for the celebration of the completion of the Kansas Avenue Redevelopment Project. The announcement that is promised to be "epic" by the organization will be released at 10 a.m. this morning. The community event is planned for July 2. Our live blog will pull in tweets from our reporters and reaction from the community as the announcement is… → Read More

Riley County police looking for man that forced his way into woman's car, dragged her with it for 800 feet

Riley County police are looking for information about a heavyset, Hispanic male suspect after a woman was dragged by her vehicle while attempting to flee from the man Thursday night. → Read More

Topeka police looking for two suspects who stole merchandise from Kohls in January

Topeka Police are searching for two unknown male suspects that stole merchandise from Kohls, they announced on their Facebook page Friday. The incident occurred on January 19 according to the post and occurred at the Kohls located at 6130 S.W. 17th St. → Read More

Live Q&A: Have a Kansas Legislature question?

It's the end of week No. 6 at the Statehouse and Topeka Capital-Journal Statehouse reporters Tim Carpenter and Jonathan Shorman will be back again to answer questions in a live blog at 11:30 a.m. Friday. → Read More

Live blog: House Minority Leader: 'We stand ready to invest in public education to ensure every child has a chance to succeed'

The Kansas Supreme Court will release at 9:30 a.m. its ruling on the equity part of the Gannon v. Kansas case. You can find background on the case and the latest developments from today here. → Read More

Upcoming live blog: Rep. Jones to take questions during live blog Friday morning

In this week's Kansas Legislature live blog, Rep. Dick Jones, R-Topeka, will take questions at 11:30 a.m. Friday. → Read More

Upcoming live blog: C-J Statehouse reporters to take questions Friday

Topeka Capital-Journal Statehouse reporters Tim Carpenter and Jonathan Shorman will be back again to answer questions in a live blog Friday at 11:30 a.m. → Read More

Topeka Capital-Journal's new VP of sales and marketing looking forward to getting involved in Topeka

Getting involved in the community was Susan Cantrell's first goal as the new vice president of sales and marketing of The Topeka Capital-Journal. → Read More

Upcoming live blog: Kuether to take questions during #ksleg live blog Friday morning

Rep. Annie Kuether, D-Topeka, will be answering questions in a live blog at 11:30 a.m. Friday.Kuether is the ranking minority member of the Energy and Environment and the Utilities and Telecommunications committees. → Read More

Upcoming live blog: C-J Statehouse reporters to take questions Friday morning

Topeka Capital-Journal Statehouse reporters Tim Carpenter and Jonathan Shorman will answer questions in a live blog Friday at 11:30 a.m.Send your questions in advance by commenting here or emailing me at emily.deshazer@cjonline.com. → Read More

Kansas lawmakers to answer questions in live blog Friday morning

Topics discussed around the Statehouse during the first week of the 2016 session ranged from findings of an efficiency report, worker shortages at KHP and KBI, insurance plans for state workers, judicial funding, the possibility of selling the Kansas Bioscience Authority, creating merit pay for teachers and auditing the Kansas foster care system. → Read More

Road work map: Jan. 12 update for Topeka and Shawnee County

A look at city, county and state projects and other road closings or restrictions.Click here to find projects near a specific location.Something missing? Email webmaster@cjonline.comDownload our Topeka Traffic Guide app for smartphones: → Read More

Upcoming live blog: State of the State address

Gov. Sam Brownback will deliver the 2016 State of the State address at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday. We'll keep you up-to-date on what's being said with live coverage from Jonathan Shorman (@jshormanCJ), Tim Carpenter (@TimVCarpenter) and other Twitter users using #ksleg.If you can't be here during the live blog, check back later to read the entire exchange. → Read More

Upcoming live blog: Herbie Teope from Chiefs Digest to talk Chiefs, NFL playoffs

The Kansas City Chiefs began the 2015 NFL season with maybe the worst start among the 32 teams. A 1-5 record before the end of October usually spells doom for a team in the league standings. → Read More

Upcoming live blog: Special Committee on K-12 Student Success

A Special Committee on K-12 Student Success will meet at 9 a.m. on Tuesday at the Statehouse. Part of what will be discussed is a report that declares the current testing approach fails students, describes the method of identifying at-risk students as discriminatory and urges state government oversight of school bond proposals before placed on a local ballot. The live blog will begin at 9 a.m. → Read More