Новости за 01.02.2022

MANHATTAN (KSNT) - Residents of Manhattan were asked by the Riley County Police Department to avoid the areas of Fort Riley Blvd. and S. Manhattan Ave. due to a car crash that has since been cleared on Tuesday. According to the RCPD Twitter account, an injury crash has been reported, leading to the closure of [...]

Topeka (KSNT) - A Kansas lawmaker, Republican Representative Susan Lee Carlson, 69, of Clay Center, has been charged for driving under the influence and failure to maintain a single lane. According to Topeka police Lt. Manuel Munoz, officers with the Topeka Police Department stopped Carlson on Jan. 31, around 9 p.m. near S.W. 14th Street [...]

TOPEKA (KSNT) - Shawnee County is celebrating record low unemployment and poverty rates. Among Kansas counties with populations greater than 100,000 — including Douglas, Johnson, Sedgwick, Shawnee, and Wyandotte counties — Shawnee County claims the second-lowest poverty rate. Shawnee County has a poverty rate of 10.5%. That falls below the state’s 2020 poverty rate of 10.6% and the 2020 U.S. poverty rate of [...]

SARCOXIE, Mo. — A former Missouri teacher charged for sexual relations with a student is now having her charges dropped after she and the student married. Baylee Turner, who began teaching English at Sarcoxie in 2019, was charged that same year with having sexual relations with one of her male students. However, now that Turner [...]

Carbon monoxide is one of the biggest dangers indoors, especially in the winter.

WASHINGTON (KSNT) -- A Kansas man is facing federal charges after threatening to kill President Joe Biden. Some people are now asking, is his arrest against his first amendment right? A Washburn law professor told KSNT News on Monday that not all free speech is free. "And there is an exception to the first amendment's [...]

LAWRENCE (KSNT) -- A scientist at the University of Kansas had made advances that could change the future of coronavirus. Molecular Biosciences Assistant Professor Anthony Fehr figured out that if scientists remove one type of protein in the coronavirus structure, the virus will cease to exist. Fehr and his team are diving into three different [...]

Moseley’s body was found Wednesday in Stockbridge, Georgia, a representative for the Henry County Police Department said.

The woman was home with her two children when a suspect, dressed in all black and wearing a backpack and armed with a short-barreled rifle, forced his way into their Standish Drive home.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Cybersecurity experts said that ransomware attacks on K-12 schools have increased during the pandemic. Cyberattacks have crippled schools in recent weeks as teachers become more reliant on computers to take attendance and deliver lessons. Before the pandemic, cyber hacks of schools rarely led to canceled classes. Snow days are less frequent [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. regulators are urging drugmaker Pfizer to apply for emergency authorization for a two-dose regimen of its COVID-19 vaccine for children 6 months to 5 years old while awaiting data on a three-dose course, aiming to clear the way for the shots as soon as late February, a person familiar with the matter told [...]

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — The family of a Kansas woman charged with joining the Islamic State group and leading an all-female battalion says they want nothing to do with her, a prosecutor said Monday. Allison Ekren, 42, made an initial appearance on Monday afternoon in U.S. District Court in Alexandria. The hearing lasted only minutes; [...]

What We’re Tracking: Cooler air moves in tonight Winter storm hits on Wednesday Several cold days likely We're starting warm and cloudy for Tuesday morning as we patiently wait for our winter storm to arrive. The colder air is on it's way but, we should still manage to get near 50° later this afternoon before [...]

TOPEKA (KSNT)- Elijah Brooks is now the all-time leading scorer in Topeka West basketball history. "He's different. If you're explaining Elijah you say he's different... different kid," Topeka West head coach Rick Bloomquist said. On Friday, Jan. 28 he scored 33 points to boost his career total to 1,251. This mark surpassed the previous all-time [...]

TOPEKA (KSNT) - A Kansas woman who served with the terrorist group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham or ISIS was captured by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and is waiting to appear in federal court. For Topeka High science teacher Larry Miller, the last thing he expected to hear from one [...]

TOPEKA, (KSNT)--- The 2022 race for governor is heating up with what appears to be the latest of several political attacks ahead of the upcoming election. The Kansas Democratic Party, KDP, launched a new website, called "Back to Brownback," on Monday, aimed at Republican front-runner Attorney General Derek Schmidt. Schmidt and democratic incumbent Governor Laura [...]

TOPEKA (KSNT) - A new Helping Hands Humane Society class is looking to help you connect more with your dog, teaching them some fun tricks in the process. Spots are filling up for the Tricks Fun and Games training class. Every Thursday for five weeks in a row, you'll learn some new interactive tricks to [...]

MANHATTAN, Kan. (KSNT) - Dennis Butler served his last day as director of the Riley County Police Department Monday. The retiring police veteran was sworn in as RCPD Director in December 2018. Butler sat down with KSNT News right before a goodbye lunch was served outside his office. He said he's thankful for his time [...]

TOPEKA (KSNT) - After finding out her daughter Aspen has a rare condition, Chelsea Fisher started fundraising for surgery. In the middle of December, Aspen was diagnosed with craniosynostosis. The condition impacts babies early on if left untreated, increasing the risks of blindness, seizures and other brain injuries. Because the surgery the family is looking [...]

Planning on heading to the Super Bowl? Be prepared to pay big bucks.

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) -- The number of positive coronavirus cases reported to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment has dropped. Since Friday, the KDHE said 7,846 Kansans tested positive for the coronavirus. That is the lowest increase in more than a month. January marked some of the biggest increases in coronavirus cases in the [...]

TOPEKA (KSNT) - New mass COVID-19 testing sites are being opened and several outdoor locations are being closed by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. According to a press release from the KDHE on Monday, new COVID-19 testing sites will be opened in Garden City and Emporia while outdoor testing sites in Topeka, Manhattan [...]

What We’re Tracking: Cooler air moves in Tuesday Winter storm hits on Wednesday Several cold days likely Overnight temperatures only fall to near 40° thanks to a continued light south wind through the evening and overnight. The sky should remain partly cloudy as we await cooler air pushing in on Tuesday. An arctic cold front [...]