What We’re Tracking: Cooler air sticks around Wind chills even colder Warmer early next week Partly cloudy skies can be expected today with afternoon highs reaching the lower 40s. Some mildly unsettled weather remains in the viewing area with cooler air sticking around and breezy conditions picking back up around lunch time. Wind chill values [...]
NORTHEAST, Kan. (KSNT) -- Highlights and scores from Friday's high school basketball action on Full Court Press. BOYS HIGHLAND PARK 57 TOPEKA WEST 54 WASHBURN RURAL 61 JUNCTION CITY 42 EMPORIA 44 HAYDEN 37 COUNCIL GROVE 70 CENTRAL HEIGHTS 55 ROCK CREEK 54 WABAUNSEE 32 ST. MARYS 48 ROSSVILLE 32 SILVER LAKE 50 RILEY COUNTY [...]
TOPEKA, Kan. (KSNT) -- Friday was calm outside the Kansas State Capitol, but that could change next week with protests planned at the statehouse. Heightened security measures will be in place in the next few days, according to Kansas Highway Patrol. "We plan to have an increased presence in and around the statehouse," said Kansas [...]
SILVER LAKE, Kan. (KSNT) - Two dogs are dead after a house fire in Silver Lake Friday night. The fire happened around 8:30 p.m. at 306 Chestnut St. Silver Lake Fire Chief Joe Hawkins told KSNT News two adults and three kids were able to escape the home. The cause of the fire is under [...]
Lawmakers are debating the Value Them Both amendment. It's a measure that would let voters decide on a woman’s right to an abortion.
LAWRENCE, Kan. (KSNT) - The KU men's basketball game scheduled for Saturday, January 16 has been postponed due to COVID-19 protocol within the Iowa State program. The University of Kansas Athletics Program said they and Iowa State will work with the Big 12 Conference to reschedule the game.
KIOWA COUNTY, Kan. (KSNW) — The Kiowa County Sheriff’s Office announced Friday that part-time Deputy Jeremy Wilkerson-Rodriguez was placed on administrative unpaid leave on Jan. 11, 2021. Deputy Wilkerson-Rodriguez reportedly ran over a man during a pursuit last August which was caught on video. The Kiowa County Sheriff’s Office said the Kansas Bureau of Investigation and the Kansas AGs office [...]
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is on track to pay out an extra $300-a-week federal unemployment benefit as part of a coronavirus rescue aid package enacted late last month. Top Department of Labor staffer Ryan Wright said the agency was in the process of testing the requisite system. Roughly two dozen states have begun paying [...]
Karen Smothers, the director of clinical operations at the Family Service and Guidance Center in Topeka has been seeing a lot of families struggling to separate work and personal life when working from home, she said.
LAWRENCE, Kan. (WDAF) — Expectations are always high for Kansas basketball with the Jayhawks routinely dominating the Big 12. “Sometimes our people may take for granted how hard it really is to win the league and how anything less than that can be a disappointment,” Head Coach Bill Self told reporters Friday. The Jayhawks are [...]
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Abortion opponents and abortion rights supporters on Friday previewed arguments they’ll make to voters if lawmakers put a proposed anti-abortion amendment to the state constitution on the ballot. House and Senate committees heard testimony on a proposal to overturn a Kansas Supreme Court decision in 2019 declaring access to abortion a [...]
TOPEKA, Kan. (KSNT) - The Kansas Department of Health and Environment released updated data on the COVID-19 vaccine in the state. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, KDHE will update its COVID-19 vaccine dashboard. As of Friday, Jan. 15, the state has vaccinated 88,597 people. Exactly 3% of Kansans have been vaccinated so far, according to [...]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KSNT) - Boulevard Brewing Company is selling an exclusive beer in honor of Topeka native and Boulevard employee Brady Smith, who passed away in December from a battle with Hepatosplenic T-Cell Lymphoma. The beer is called Never Give An Inch, his favorite quote. It comes from the novel Sometimes a Great Notion [...]
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – James Naismith, the Canadian-American who invented the game of basketball, was celebrated with a Google Doodle on Friday. On December 21, 1891 Naismith held the first-ever game of basketball as the physical education teacher at the YMCA college in Springfield. When an article about the game rules titled “A New Game” was published in the [...]
