Новости за 30.06.2022

What We’re Tracking: A few clouds tonight, shower north Best storm chance Friday night/Saturday morning Quite hot for next week Overnight, clouds increase and so do our rain chances for counties along the Kansas/Nebraska border. Moisture will start to build back into the region so plan on humidity levels increasing the next few days. With [...]

TOPEKA (KSNT) - The Gage Park Memorial Group has been working on the WWII monuments for over eight years and finally had them set in place on Thursday. "We are setting the WWII Memorial today. This has been an 8-year process. It is black granite and that only comes from India. Once we had it [...]

UPDATE: The Shawnee County Parks and Recreation Department will have a delayed opening instead of being closed, Thursday, June 30. Park maintenance staff is adjusting the chemicals in the pool. TOPEKA (KSNT) - The Shawnee North Family Aquatic Center was abruptly closed today, June 30, due to an issue with chemicals in the water, according [...]

SALINA (KSNT) - A bizarre set of circumstances led to the death of an unknown individual on I-135 south of Salina at 6:30 a.m. Thursday morning. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, a non-injury crash between two vehicles, a car and a semi-tractor-trailer was reported Thursday morning near milepost 86. Shortly after the call, the [...]

TOPEKA (KSNT) - The Topeka Fire Department responded to a fire that it says was intentionally set at the Eastboro Shopping Center Thursday morning. Fire Marshal Alan Stahl said the department will be there for a "significant amount of time." People in the area and drivers are encouraged to avoid the area near SE Tefft [...]

JACKSON COUNTY (KSNT) - One man is in custody after leading law enforcement on a two-county car chase with speeds that exceeded 100 mph, according to the Jackson County Sheriff's Office. Jackson County Sheriff Tim Morse said his office got a call about a possible intoxicated person driving recklessly on US 75 in Shawnee County. [...]

Afternoon highs are expected to reach the lower to middle 90s once again. We'll have sunny skies for the daytime, but clouds increase tonight and so do our rain chances for counties along the Kansas Nebraska border. Moisture will start to build back into the region so plan on humidity levels increasing the next few [...]

TOPEKA (KSNT) - Veteran Joe Turner enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1953. He describes himself as a country boy to the core and wanted a chance at a better life. "I came from a very poor part of the country in Oklahoma," Turner said. "I would have never been able to go to school, [...]

TOPEKA (KSNT)- A pair of Shawnee County Sports Hall of Famers will host a kids camp in Topeka in July. Kyle Weems and Michael Wilhoite are returning to Topeka for the community give back event on Thursday, July 7 at Shawnee Heights High School. "Topeka's everything of what I am," Weems said. Both athletes graduated [...]

TOPEKA (KSNT) - Post-traumatic stress disorder is one of the more common mental illnesses in the county, yet it's rarely talked about. Stress is your body's normal response to trauma, it's not something out of the ordinary. In many ways, PTSD is similar to fight flight or freeze - but that stress reaction happens when [...]

TOPEKA (KSNT) - This weekend, President Biden is set to sign into law the first major federal gun safety legislation in decades. Local gun reform advocates are thankful change is finally coming. The bipartisan "Safer Communities Act" will soon provide millions of dollars for mental health, school safety and crisis intervention programs. The money can [...]

SHERMAN COUNTY (KSNT) - A Kansas woman has set a new state fishing record with her catch out of a local farm pond in Sherman County. Tami Sanderson has entered the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Park's records after catching a yellow perch in a farm pond. The perch weighed in at 1.46 pounds and [...]

TOPEKA (KSNT) - Signs showing support for the controversial Value Them Both movement in Kansas are reportedly being stolen and vandalized. People have been expressing their anger against the Value Them Both movement in Kansas this year with the overturning of Roe v. Wade by the U.S. Supreme Court on June 24. This action by [...]

RUSSELL (KSNT) - A police dog from California with seven years of experience in law enforcement was laid to rest in Russell, Kansas. The Russell Police Department and the Russell County Sheriff's Office had the "distinct honor" of escorting the retired K9 known as Max for his last ride on June 29. With his health [...]

PRATT (KSNT) - Following a three-year poaching investigation, the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks has charged nine people. Game wardens with the KDWP were responsible for conducting an investigation spanning multiple counties in Northwest Kansas in connection to numerous poached animals. Both physical and electronic search warrants were managed by the KDWP during the [...]

WASHINGTON (KSNT) - A Kansas man was sentenced on Wednesday for a racially-motivated hate crime targeting an African-American man. According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, Colton Donner, 27, was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison and 18 months of supervised release after he threatened an unnamed black man with a knife on Sept. 11, [...]