RILEY COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities are investigating a registered Kansas sex offender on new charges after a Monday arrest. Just after 9p.m. Monday, the Riley County Police Department received two reports of an unknown man exposing himself at separate locations in central Manhattan, according to the Riley County Police Department activity report. The first incident listed two […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court’s conservative majority seemed ready Tuesday to uphold the Trump administration’s plan to ask about citizenship on the 2020 census , despite evidence that millions of Hispanics and immigrants could go uncounted. There appeared to be a clear divide between the court’s liberal and conservative justices in arguments in a […]

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — A 70-year-old driver told investigators that his brakes failed before his car careened onto a suburban Kansas City sidewalk where it struck and killed a 14-year-old girl and narrowly missed three other children. Police in Overland Park, Kansas, released the report Monday about the April 12 crash that killed Alexandra […]

TOPEKA, KS – During an incident with a Sumatran tiger on Saturday, a Zoo Keeper at the Topeka Zoo and Conservation Center sustained injuries and continues her recovery at a local Topeka hospital. On Tuesday the zoo identified the injured zoo keeper as 40-year-old Kristyn Hayden-Ortega. She began working with the Topeka Zoo in July […]

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man has been sentenced to more than six years in state prison for abusing his 2-month-old son. Prosecutors dropped an attempted murder charge against Thomas Avery Harper in exchange for his guilty plea to aggravated battery and child abuse. Sedgwick County authorities say Harper was sentenced Friday to six […]

HAMILTON COUNTY — A Kansas man is recovering from injuries in a weekend crash in southwest Kansas. The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2006 Izusu I-280 driven by Samuel Zapata, 20, Syracuse, was northbound on Barton Street south of U.S. 50 just after 5:30p.m. Saturday. The pickup traveled around train crossing grades. The driver’s side […]

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ attorney general on Monday asked the state Supreme Court to settle an unprecedented dispute between Gov. Laura Kelly and a top lawmaker over whether Kelly can name a new lower-court judge after withdrawing her first pick. The Democratic governor announced last week that she […]

SHAWNEE COUNTY — Authorities are investigating the cause of a fire Monday at a home in Shawnee County. Just after 3a.m., fire crews  responded to a reported structure fire located at 325 SE Pinecrest Drive in Topeka, according to Fire Chief Michael Martin. Upon arrival, firecrews found a one story wood frame residence with heavy smoke […]

KANSAS CITY, KAN. – An inmate at Leavenworth federal prison was sentenced Monday to 42 months in prison for attacking another prisoner with a metal pipe, according to U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister. Jimmy A. Eastep, Jr., 49, pleaded guilty to one count of assault with a dangerous weapon. In his plea, he admitted he was […]