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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Agents with KBI’s Northeast Child Victims Task Force seized evidence from a home in Southwest Topeka on Tuesday morning. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation tells 13 NEWS that its Northeast Child Victims Task Force executed a search warrant in Southwest Topeka on Tuesday morning, June 28.

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - A Topeka man allegedly attempted to outrun a methamphetamine arrest early Tuesday morning after Shawnee Co. deputies stopped his SUV when he ran out and hid underneath a nearby truck. The Shawnee County Sheriff’s Office says just after 3 a.m. on Tuesday, June 28, deputies arrested...

TOPEKA (KSNT)- It’s the last thing you want to do on a hot day, but Topeka is cracking down on lawn maintenance. From May to September Topeka responds to over 1,200 overgrown lawns. Once a notice has been issued the resident has 10 days to start chopping. “If they elect not to, we then return […]

SHAWNEE COUNTY – The Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) is investigating an officer-involved shooting that occurred Friday in Topeka. Officials continue working to ID the man who died. On Monday, an autopsy was performed on the man, according to the KBI. At approximately 9 a.m. on Friday, officers from...

SHAWNEE COUNTY (KSNT) – Passengers in two vehicles escaped any serious injury Tuesday morning when they collided at the intersection of NW Rochester Road and NW 35th Street. The Shawnee County Sheriff’s Office said no major injuries were reported and there was no fire hazard. Traffic is being redirected around the crash, but people can […]

The owner of a cannabis dispensary raided by Shawnee County law enforcement in April is suing the state, arguing policies limiting the sale of certain cannabis products run afoul of federal law. The lawsuit, filed on Friday in U.S. District Court, challenges an opinion issued by Attorney General Derek Schmidt late last year deeming that many...

TOPEKA (KSNT) – The Topeka Zoo broke ground on the new Giraffe and Friends Exhibit on June 8th, 2021.  “This Giraffe facility is sitting on about a 5-acre site. There is an enormous amount of activity going on right now. When it is all complete, this building will interact with an antelope facility that will […]

SHAWNEE COUNTY (KSNT) – A man attempting to flee from the Shawnee County Sheriff’s Office was found hiding under a truck Tuesday. Derek S. Devlin, 37, was pulled over by deputies on Tuesday, June 28, just after 3 a.m. in the 1000 block of NW Van Buren Street. According to the Shawnee County Sheriff’s Office, […]

Eight of the passengers involved in Monday’s deadly Amtrak train derailment in central Missouri are from Easton, Kansas.

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - The Kansas Highway Patrol confirms a third vehicle may have been involved in a head-on collision that killed two drivers. The wreck happened June 13, 2022, on K-4, just south of NE 31 St. near the Jefferson / Shawnee county line. The Kansas Highway Patrol crash...

EASTON, Kan. — An investigation is underway after three people were killed and at least 50 injured after an Amtrak Southwest Chief train hit a dump truck at a public crossing and derailed near Mendon, north of Marshall, Missouri Monday afternoon. The derailment happened about 100 miles northeast of...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - All 105 Kansas counties have been placed under at least a drought watch as a record heat wave makes its way across the Sunflower State. The Kansas Water Office says on Monday, June 27, Governor Laura Kelly signed Executive Order #22-06 which declared updated drought emergencies for Kansas counties.

Who, to Topeka USD 501 superintendent Tiffany Anderson, could be a stranger when it's the community's children that are her business?. She walks up to anyone and everyone around the Milk and Honey Coffee Co. café space, imploring them to tell her something she doesn't yet know about her district.

Topeka's city government is preparing to significantly change its approach for dealing with overgrown grass and weeds in local neighborhoods. For decades, the city has had property maintenance employees respond to complaints and find out if grass, weeds or other uncultivated vegetation is more than 12 inches tall. If it...