Новости за 09.03.2022

TOPEKA (KSNT) - The City of Topeka has announced that it is making preparations for the upcoming snow storm expected to roll through Northeast Kansas on Thursday. A spokesperson for the city said that 24-hour coverage by crews will begin on Wednesday night at 7 p.m. All bridges and roads in the city have been [...]

FORT RILEY (KSNT) - More soldiers from Fort Riley in Kansas are going to Europe as Russian troops press further into Ukraine, the military post announced Wednesday. Around 300 soldiers from Fort Riley's 1st Infantry Division Headquarters and 1st Infantry Division Artillery are deploying to Europe "in the coming days." The group will be part [...]

TOPEKA (KSNT) - The Kansas State Board of Education held a meeting Tuesday and Wednesday, the first since rejecting the letter of resignation from Commissioner Randy Watson on Feb. 25. The 10 member board appointed Randy Watson the Education Commissioner in 2014. Following comments he made in a conference call that were insensitive to Native [...]

MANHATTAN (KSNT) - Kansas State has canceled classes for Thursday as a winter storm is predicted to move through the area. The storm system is set to move tonight and into Thursday, bringing in much colder air behind it for Friday and Saturday. The highest snowfall totals look to be north of I-70, but the [...]

TOPEKA (KSNT) - Kansas Governor Laura Kelly ordered flags to be lowered to half-staff after Kansas saw the COVID-19 death toll reach 8,000. “I’m deeply saddened as I order flags to half-staff for the eighth time since the pandemic began,” Governor Kelly said. "We have the tools to stop this virus and prevent further unnecessary deaths of [...]

TOPEKA (KSNT) - Dinosaurs Alive! opens Friday at the Topeka Zoo. "We had artists carve these individually under the supervision of scientists. Which is why they are the only robots in the world that are as accurate as science knows." Don Lessem, creator of Dinosaurs Alive! "I have about 400 of these, mostly not in [...]

OTTAWA (KSNT) - A 78-year-old Ottawa man is missing and the police are asking for the public's help to find him. The Ottawa Police Department is searching for William "Bill" Pickering, 78, who was last seen walking near 8th and Lincoln in Ottawa at 9:15 a.m. this morning. Pickering has a medical condition that requires [...]

TOPEKA (KSNT) - Kansas lawmakers met today to consider limiting federal power by requesting a Constitutional Convention. The bill died with a 76-43 vote. Two-thirds of state legislatures (34 states) would have to pass this for a convention of states to take place. The resolution would call a convention with the purpose of proposing amendments [...]

UPDATE: Topeka Metro KDOT tweeted at 10:50 a.m. Wednesday that the overturned truck on the westbound ramp had been cleared and the road reopened. TOPEKA (KSNT) -Emergency crews are have responded to a single-vehicle rollover, and the Shawnee County Sheriff's Office is warning motorists a semi-tractor trailer has rolled over on the westbound ramp near [...]

MANHATTAN (KSNT) - An early morning fire destroyed a home in Manhattan causing $230,000 damage, according to Sam Dameron, Assistant Chief, with the Manhattan Fire Department Manhattan crews responded to a fire at 2112 Farmingdale Ct. at 4:17 a.m. Wednesday morning. The fire department said upon arrival, crews found the two-story home completely engulfed in [...]

***WINTER STORM WARNING FOR NORTHERN HALF OF THE AREA FOR WEDNESDAY NIGHT & THURSDAY*** ***WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHERN HALF OF THE AREA FOR WEDNESDAY NIGHT & THRUSDAY*** Our next storm system is set to move in tonight and into Thursday, bringing in much colder air behind it for Friday and Saturday. The highest snowfall [...]

JOPLIN, Mo. (KSNF/KODE) - The Joplin Police Department has provided an update on the condition of the other two officers involved in Tuesday's shooting. One officer is in critical condition and another officer is in serious but stable condition. As reported earlier, a third officer succumbed to his injuries this afternoon. It started around 1:30 [...]

MANHATTAN (KSNT) - The Manhattan City Commission met Tuesday night to hear a presentation which focused on the current housing market situation in the city. The presentation was given by Development Strategies and is part of a larger project by the City of Manhattan to focus on the challenge of ensuring the availability of housing [...]

TOPEKA (KSNT) - Washburn faculty gathered to discuss the current situation in Ukraine on Tuesday night with one of them, a military veteran, giving his own opinion on the ongoing conflict. Kris Ailslieger is a member of the Washburn University Political Science Department and currently serves as the Deputy Solicitor General at the Kansas Attorney [...]

Josh Gordon will stick around in Kansas City for another season. The Chiefs have signed the wide receiver to a new contract, reports say.

TOPEKA (KSNT) - Cancer can't keep this Topeka businesswoman down. Katy Nelson is a former military brat who settled down in Topeka 20 years ago and is a three-time survivor of cancer. She's had to overcome thyroid, uteran and ovarian cancer along with breast cancer. "I was so tired. I mean there were mornings I [...]

TOPEKA (KSNT) - Race is taking the center stage with the Kansas State School Board. The State Board of Education received recommendations today from Governor Laura Kelly's commission on racial equity and justice. The topics of the discussion ranged from school resource officers to Native American mascots at Kansas schools. Tuesday night's meeting comes less [...]

LAWRENCE (KSNT) - The Associated Press unanimously named KU senior Ochai Agabji the Big 12 Player of the Year. He also made the organization's All-Big 12 first team, the AP announced Tuesday. Agbaji was named Big 12 Player of the Year by the conference on March 6. He leads the Jayhawks with 586 points this [...]

TOPEKA (KSNT) - Spring draws closer with every passing day and so too does the arrival of Tulip Time 2022. Set for April 8 to 24, Tulip Time will bring thousands of tulips and flowering bulbs of a wide variety of colors to three Shawnee County Parks and Recreation gardens: the Ted Ensley Gardens at [...]

JOPLIN, Mo. — Officers are on scene following reports of a shooting in the neighborhood near Geneva Ave & E 9th St. Police said it started in the Buckle parking lot where shots were first fired at police. This gunfight moved to 9th and Connecticut and later into Laura Lane with shots being exchanged between [...]

TOPEKA (KSNT) - The Hills Bark Park located in Gage park is now open. Hills Bark Park in Gage Park had been closed for construction since Nov. 11, 2021. The new construction replaced and enhanced the main entrance to the park, added new fencing and concrete, new shade structures in the large dog section with [...]

What We’re Tracking: Cool, partly cloudy weather for Wednesday Snow likely late Wednesday night through Thursday Cold for several days, then warmer by the end of the weekend ***WINTER STORM WATCH FOR NORTHERN HALF OF THE AREA FOR WEDNESDAY NIGHT & THURSDAY*** Tonight, the clouds will gradually clear toward daybreak before increasing again late Wednesday. [...]

BROWN COUNTY (KSNT) - When a frantic parent called the Brown County Sheriff's Office for help with a missing child, she couldn't have had a better outcome. That is because only two weeks after being certified as a compassion/drug dog, Carla, found the child safely curled under a blanket in the family's home. Last week, [...]