According to Shawnee Co. District Attorney Mike Kagay, Kayden Smith, 22, of Topeka, was formally charged with murder in the ...

Prosecutors have filed a charge against a local man accused of killing a Topekan in 2022. Shawnee County District Attorney ...

Topeka City Council meeting, multiple community members and council members spoke up for transparency in police shootings.

Dana Chandler, 65, was given prison sentences June 3 for first-degree murder in the 2002 gunshot slayings of her former ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Dozens of protesters converged in the heart of the Latino community in Minneapolis on Tuesday after a ...

The Topeka Police Department (TPD) is investigating a homicide near downtown Topeka Tuesday. According to TPD on June 3, 2025 ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Topeka police are investigating a homicide that took place near downtown on Tuesday night. According to the Topeka Police Department (TPD), on Tuesday, June 3, at approximately 7 ...

Police have arrested a man a second time in connection to a 2022 deadly shooting. The Topeka Police Department (TPD) reports that it has arrested 22-year-old Kayden Smith, of ...

Vallejo has sought to connect with residents here since he became Topeka police chief in January after having served since 1994 with the police department in Austin, Texas. Vallejo spoke April 10 ...

Weiland photo Shawnee Co. During the investigation, it was determined that the driver was wanted by the Topeka Police Department and illegal narcotics were located. Ronald A. Weiland, 62 ...

Hack was employed 24 years by the Topeka Fire Department before being "forced out" April 1, 2023, after not receiving a promotion to an administrative position, her complaint says. "Police Chief ...

Discrimination lawsuits by two retired Topeka Fire Department captains are moving toward trial in the wake of Topeka's city government's having been found last week to have discriminated against two ...