TOPEKA (KSNT) - The Topeka Zoo announced Monday that a new sloth had joined the ranks of critters in the rainforest. Jackie, a Hoffman's Sloth at the zoo, gave birth around 9:15 a.m. Monday. The Hoffman's Sloth is a two-toed sloth and one of the world's slowest mammals. "This morning we welcomed a new baby [...]
Drugmaker Pfizer is currently testing a single pill cure for COVID-19, and if all goes well, the drug could be available this year.
TOPEKA (KSNT) – The Kansas Department of Health and Environment announced that Kansas will resume distributing the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine following an announcement on April 23 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration encouraging resumption of the vaccine. “Today, Kansas will resume administering the Johnson & [...]
TOPEKA, Kan. (KSNT) - Topeka JUMP is holding its annual "Nehemiah Action Assembly" as a drive-in event Monday night. The group will be hosting the event at the Topeka First United Methodist Church starting at 7:00 p.m. Monday. People will park in the parking lot off of Topeka Boulevard and there will be signs posted [...]
TOPEKA (KSNT) – Topeka police are asking the public for help Monday as they look into what they call a woman's suspicious death. The woman was identified as Hester Workman, 46, of Topeka, and police consider her death suspicious. The Topeka Police Department responded to a call around 7:15 p.m. Saturday requesting medical help to [...]
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Sometime after a January 2017 drug bust near Interstate 70's main exit for President Dwight Eisenhower's boyhood Kansas home, $72,000 in cash seized by the local sheriff's department disappeared. The state has been investigating the Dickinson County Sheriff's Department for close to four years, with two officials saying in a court [...]
A crash left a car suspended upside down by utility wires in Tennessee, and the driver, who was uninjured, has now been charged.
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNT) — Michigan is the nation's new hotspot for COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations. The state has recorded 91,000 new cases over the last two weeks, the highest in the nation. Nurses from Ascension Via Christi in Wichita join the fight against COVID-19 by helping their sister hospital in Detroit. The nurses left Eisenhower [...]
TOPEKA (KSNT) - The arrest of Kansas Senate Majority Leader Gene Suellentrop was nothing out of the ordinary according to the Kansas Highway Patrol. It was "nothing uncommon," Kansas Highway Patrol Superintendent Herman Jones told KSNT News Monday morning. "It was nothing any different than what happens across the state," Jones said. A judge released [...]
Fourteen-year-old Brandi Levy was having that kind of day where she just wanted to scream. So she did, in a profanity-laced posting on Snapchat that has, improbably, ended up before the Supreme Court in the most significant case on student speech in more than 50 years.
What We’re Tracking: Breezy conditions Borderline hot this afternoon Rain, a few storms midweek Mostly sunny skies will be present to start out the day today but it looks like some cloud cover will make its way back into the region by about lunchtime. Afternoon highs today will be in the upper 80s with a [...]
WAMEGO, KS (KSNT) - A 16-year-old from Wamego is teaching people of all ages that we are not invincible while texting and driving, speeding or driving impaired; and his mom thanks an app for telling her that he was in danger, otherwise today their family would look a lot different. Palmer Nowlin was hanging out [...]
TOPEKA (KSNT) -- With warm temperatures in the 70s across Topeka, locals got a taste of the summer weather Sunday. Gage Park and Lake Shawnee were among some the most popular spots across the city where people were found hanging out with family and friends. From picnics to playgrounds and everything in between, people are [...]
TOPEKA (KSNT) -- Shawnee County Parks and Recreation brought back a popular event for the spring, Tulips at Twilight. The display gave people from all over the state a chance to stop and smell the tulips, even at night. The event featured over 35 light displays and thousands of tulips throughout Ward-Meade Park, located at [...]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has established a "6-foot rule" for social distancing from others amid the coronavirus pandemic, but the interval may not suffice to protect you from COVID while indoors, a new study has found.
DES MOINES, Iowa (KSNT) -- Emporia State senior thrower Alyssa Conway broke a school record Saturday during the hammer throw event at the Drake Relays. Conway has seen improvement in her last four meets, and Saturday she improved again, breaking a 23-year-old hammer throw record set at the 1988 NCAA Championships, according to Emporia State [...]
What We're Tracking: Breezy conditions Borderline hot for Monday Rain, a few storms midweek Overnight lows will only fall back to near 60° tonight as a continued southerly wind is with us through the night. Clear to partly cloudy for the night, setting us up for a big warm-up on Monday. Monday looks to bring [...]
