Sporting a pair of overalls, standing outside his antique Ford truck filled with freshly picked watermelons is Kenneth Simons.
Starting on Wednesday, the Wienermobile will be making appearances in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Atlanta for a three-day period.
TOPEKA (KSNT) – Washburn University students celebrated the birthday of the university’s mascot Wednesday on the Memorial Lawn. Students enjoyed hotdogs for lunch, took part in a mural painting and listened to live music by Miguel Antonio. Ichabod Washburn was born in Kingston, Mass. on Aug. 11, 1798, to a sea captain (Ichabod Washburn, Sr.) [...]
DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) - Death Valley National Park rangers are reminding visitors to limit stressful activities during summer heat after another hiker died along the same trail within days. Authorities say 52-year-old Blake Chaplin of Leawood, Kansas, was found dead on Aug. 21 along the Golden Canyon Trail. The temperature on Aug. [...]
WICHITA (KSNT) - A Kansas man has been arrested after taking a cop car for a 'joy ride' early Sunday morning. At approximately 1:20 a.m. Sunday, a Wichita police officer was contacted by a citizen at the Quik Trip located at Murdock and Broadway. While the officer was contacting the reporting party, 24-year-old Alexis Flores-Mendez [...]
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The Wichita City Council raised the minimum hourly wage to $15 for full-time city employees as part of the city's new $670 million budget. The vote on Tuesday comes as the city plans to begin filling several positions that were kept vacant to save money. Officials had predicted the city would [...]
MANHATTAN, Kan. (KSNT) - The City of Manhattan wants you to get the covid vaccine and is offering an incentive to do so. If the City of Manhattan employee presents their vaccination card to the Human Resources Department, they will receive a one-time $100 bonus added to their paycheck. The amount is taxable.
TOPEKA (KSNT) - A semi-tractor trailer fire at US-75 over NW 46th Street delayed traffic Wednesday morning. Shawnee County dispatch encouraged all motorists to avoid the area. All southbound lanes were closed but have since reopened. The truck was hauling a carnival ride when it appeared to slam into the barrels at the exit, causing [...]
A HEAT ADVISORY has been issued for the entire area until 8:00pm Thursday evening. The heat continues through the entire work week as rain chances look absent throughout the majority of the week. Daytime temperatures on Wednesday will top out in the middle to upper 90s east and lower 100s west with heat indices ranging [...]
JUNCTION CITY (KSNT) - The new Junction City High School is opening to students as construction continues in parts of the new school. The district said more than 1,500 students are expected to start classes in the new facility on Wednesday. The new facility is located around 2.5 miles west of the old high school [...]
LEAVENWORTH COUNTY (KSNT) - A 34-year-old motorcyclist was killed when he struck a dump truck Tuesday morning in Leavenworth County. William Guthrie, 34, of Tonganoxie, died when the motorcycle he was driving collided with a dump truck at US-24 and Stone Creek Drive. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol crash log, the dump truck exited [...]
TOPEKA (KSNT) - A 19-year-old Topeka woman was killed Tuesday when her vehicle collided with a barrier wall on the Kansas Turnpike. Chelsie Randel, 19, of Topeka, was driving westbound on I-70 when the 2002 Jeep she was driving left the road, drove on the outside shoulder of the road, hit a guardrail, went across [...]
TOPEKA (KSNT) - Topeka police have identified the victim killed in the city's most recent murder. Officers went to the Travelers Inn in south Topeka around 1:45 p.m. Tuesday afternoon on calls of a shooting. When they arrived, they found James Epps, Jr., 37, shot and with life-threatening injuries, according to a press release. First [...]
HOLTON (KSNT) - The Barta family is all about football. “I’ve always looked up to my father, and what he did here at K-State," Mason Barta said. It started with Roger Barta. You may have heard of him. “When I was born, I was at a football game the next day," his son, Brooks Barta, [...]
TOPEKA (KSNT) - Topeka's hospitals are at or near full capacity with more COVID cases flooding their emergency rooms, leaving officials to urge residents to wear masks and take precautions. Stormont Vail Health President and CEO Dr. Robert Kenagy announced the hospital is full and on diversion on Monday. Diversion means the hospital cannot accept [...]
TOPEKA, (KSNT) -- Kansas hospital officials are weighing new efforts to address challenges healthcare workers and patients are facing in the state. Some initiatives include a possible pay raise for staff. "One of the things we're really exploring is additional funding to help retain and recruit new staff," said Cindy Samuelson, a spokesperson for the [...]
TOPEKA, (KSNT) -- With the Pfizer vaccine fully approved by the FDA, some parents may be wondering whether schools will soon require coronavirus vaccinations for students and staff. In Kansas, the potential of that happening for public K-12 schools and universities doesn't seem likely at the moment. A spokesperson for the State Board of Education [...]
TOPEKA (KSNT) - Washburn University kicked off the 2021-2022 school year with an outdoor festival for students Tuesday evening. The annual festival was held outdoors on the Memorial Union lawn and is meant to show students what campus has to offer. The event included various attractions, such as a bounce houses, an archery challenge, frisbee [...]
FORT RILEY (KSNT) - The U.S. Military is making COVID-19 vaccines mandatory for all service members. The Pentagon making that announcement Tuesday morning following the FDA's full approval of Pfizer's shot. Officials at Fort Riley say they're waiting on specific guidance on how to roll out that mandate, before they put enforcement measures in place. [...]
MANHATTAN, KS (KSNT) - Offensive lineman Taylor Poitier will not play in the 2021 football season, head coach Chris Klieman said. Poitier, a redshirt sophomore, suffered a lower-body injury during preseason camp. No further details on the injury or recovery were given. "We're sad for Taylor because he's such a tremendous kid, and such a [...]
