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Abi, one of two pregnant Topeka Zoo giraffes, gave birth Wednesday afternoon.Through the YouTube live streams provided by the Topeka Zoo views began to → Read More
MANHATTAN — A massage parlor in downtown Topeka that law enforcement and federal prosecutors believe operated as a front for sex work fits the mold of what Kansas investigators find in human trafficking cases, an assistant U.S. attorney said Tuesday, but investigating such establishments can be tricky.Increasingly, investigators find those dealing in the sex trade using storefront massage… → Read More
LAWRENCE — John Hampton, co-owner of downtown Lawrence's soon-to-open Black Stag Brewery, knows a thing or two about beer.Before retiring, Hampton → Read More
Dana L. Chandler, who was previously convicted of a 2002 double homicide, will represent herself in her retrial, for the time being.The Kansas Supreme → Read More
A man who wanted his conviction for a 2013 murder overturned by the Kansas Supreme Court will spend additional time in prison, a judge ruled Thursday.It → Read More
The family of Dominique White has filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Topeka and multiple police officers involved in the 30-year-old's 2017 shooting death near Ripley Park in East Topeka.On the nine-month mark of White's death, his family planned to gather at Thursday at the Law Enforcement Center to announce the filing of the lawsuit. Filed Wednesday by White's father Kelly White, the… → Read More
Union workers at the Topeka Frito-Lay plant this week voted down a new contract, citing stagnant wages, and a federal negotiator will brought in next month, a union representative said Thursday.Brad Schmidt, international representative for the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers union, was called in to help Topeka’s Local 218 with negotiations, which took place last week. A… → Read More
A Topeka adult services company faces a federal lawsuit from a former employee who accused a top Kansas disability services administrator of repeated and → Read More
Daniel R. Munoz faces a first-degree murder charge after one of the two men police and prosecutors believe he shot early this month died, Shawnee County → Read More
Although Joseph A. Krahn killed three people in a North Topeka home last year, one man who witnessed the crime told jurors Thursday it seemed to him Kora → Read More
The boyfriend of homicide victim Nicole Fisher told jurors Tuesday he thought she would be fine when he left her at a home in North Topeka where her body → Read More
Kora L. Liles may not have killed anyone but evidence will show she played a pivotal role in the deaths of three people in a North Topeka home last spring, → Read More
Jury selection in the first trial in a Topeka triple murder that has five defendants began Monday with jury selection.Kora L. Liles, 31, is charged with → Read More
A protest that touched on a number issues including child welfare was interrupted Monday when police arrested more than a dozen people in front of the → Read More
A Shawnee County District Court Judge Monday set a $500,000 bond for a man suspected of shooting two others over the weekend.Police arrested Daniel R. → Read More
A third man involved in a road rage killing has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge.Daniel A. Askew, pleaded guilty Tuesday to disorderly conduct in the Oct. 8, 2016, incident that lead to the death of Michael J. Stadler. He was sentenced to 30 days in jail with a $500 fine. He had already spent 30 days in jail, according to court records.Stadler, 28, was gunned down near S.W. 29th and… → Read More
A Kansas man wanted for more than 150 counts of rape is behind bars in Pennsylvania after Abilene police detectives traveled more than 1,000 miles to find → Read More
A Holton man serving more than 30 years for rape and sodomy appealed part of his conviction, pointing to prosecutor misconduct and errors made by the → Read More
A FBI and Topeka police raid on a downtown massage parlor Tuesday was part of larger investigation into fronts for prostitution. Sunflower Massage, 733 S. → Read More
With no suspects identified two weeks after a drive-by shooting injured a child in near Mayetta, the Jackson County Sheriff's Office announced Monday it → Read More