Topeka News

A recent Washburn Rural High School graduate danced her way into homes across the country Tuesday when she appeared on the television show "So You Think You Can Dance." Hayley Erbert, 18, who graduated from Washburn Rural this month, will advance to the Las Vegas competition.

It took an international production starring a Puerto Rican and a Frenchman to bring the Native American tale "Jimmy P.: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian" to the big screen.

Troopers said Pennington was eastbound on K-58 highway in a 1995 International. He looked down at paperwork and veered off road to the right, troopers said, overcorrecting and coming back across K-58. The scene, which emergency personnel responded to at 11:55 a.m., was about a mile east of K-58's junction with K-75 highway.

Bond was set at $150,000 Wednesday for a 20-year-old Topekan who has been charged in the shootings of two Topeka men early Sunday in Lawrence.

A woman was arrested for driving under the influence after the vehicle she was operating struck a business in a south Topeka shopping center.

The group Chris Aytes and the Good Ambition kicked off the return of the brown bag concert series.

Gas prices are rising rapidly in the nations heartland and its mainly due to refinery problems that have reduced the supply from four refineries to the mid-continent and Great Lakes regions and Kansans have a lot to say about it.

Marlena from Country Legends 106.9 will broadcast live from 11 am to 2 pm Thursday, May 23, from the Red Cross office at 1221 SW 17th St.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the bill approved in the Senate would provide about $15 million in federal matching funds for Topeka to correct problems with its levee system along the Kansas River.

Topeka police Sgt. Steve Roth, right, and another officer examine a motorcycle that was invovled in a wreck Tuesday afternoon in the 5900 block of S.W. 21st.

Police say a woman found shot to death in an abandoned Yakima house had a history of run-ins with police and was known to belong to a group of squatters.

The city council's Transient Guest Tax Committee tonight elected Richard Harmon their chair, then received positive news from the 2012 fiscal year.

TOPEKA, Kan. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment has scheduled a public participation meeting concerning the proposed Tarkio CD Disposal, LLC, construction and demolition landfill planned for a site along East 56th Avenue in the Zeandale community in Riley County, Kan.

Neighbors were concerned about the live power line being down in their neighborhood.

Native American actress Misty Upham never dreamt she would be walking the red carpet at Cannes to showcase a film shot on her reservation.

Tornadoes and severe thunderstorms swept across Kansas and Oklahoma on Sunday, uprooting trees, downing power lines and causing structural damage to homes and businesses.

A 27-year-old Topeka man and a 33-year-old Topeka man, whose names haven't been released, were taken to Kansas City area hospitals with gunshot wounds that were considered life-threatening, said Lawrence police Sgt.

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Sunday evening, the National Weather Service placed the Shawnee County area and much of the northeastern part of the state in a severe weather warning.

The Kansas Dept. of Transportation detailed its upcoming safety campaign in a news conference May 9 at the Law Enforcement Center in Topeka.