TOPEKA (KSNT) - The Topeka Special OlympicsCommittee held their annual Polar Plunge Saturday at the Crestview Community Center. Each dollar raised in the 2023 Polar Plunge will go toward Special Olympics programming to support over 4,500 Special Olympics athletes in the state of Kansas. This year's Polar Plunge gave out awards for, Click here for [...]
What We're Tracking Clouds have filtered back into the area with a few showers starting to roll through. Nothing substantial is expected with this precipitation though as it will be light and moving pretty quickly. We'll start to clear out later today seeing sunshine return and highs should reach the upper 50s and lower 60s [...]
NORTHEAST KANSAS (KSNT) – Highlights and scores from Friday’s sub-state high school basketball action on Full Court Press. Boys DERBY 74 (4OT)WASHBURN RURAL 72 PERRY-LECOMPTON 38SILVER LAKE 20 SABETHA 51NEMAHA CENTRAL 59 HAYDEN 43ATCHISON 59 HOLTON 47BALDWIN 65 BURLINGTON 41WELLSVILLE 56 MANHATTAN 56LAWRENCE 40 JUNCTION CITY 46GARDEN CITY 43 CLAY CENTER 51PRATT 36 WAMEGO 29EUDORA [...]
TOPEKA (KSNT) - One day after a Shawnee County jury found a man not guilty in the shooting death of an innocent bystander, his attorney says he's about to be a free man for the first time in nearly three years. Tony Baird was arrested in 2020 for the murder of Jerrie Ross. She was [...]
TOPEKA (KSNT) - Kansas Governor Laura Kelly is pushing back against the latest comments from New York City Mayor Eric Adams. In an exclusive interview with Kansas Capitol Bureau, she explained what's led up to the heightened tensions over his comments. Adams took a jab at the state's Capital city of Topeka earlier this week, [...]
TOPEKA (KSNT) - Shawnee County Sheriff's deputies executed a search warrant on Friday that resulted in multiple arrests and the confiscation of numerous counterfeit pills containing fentanyl. Bar-hopping, liquor on Sundays: Kansas pushes to change alcohol laws In a news release, a sheriff's spokeswoman said the Shawnee County Sheriff’s Office Drug Enforcement Task Force, with [...]
The three Kansas City, Missouri police officers shot earlier this week while executing a warrant have since been released from the hospital.
(Video Courtesy/Dawn Shoffner) GEARY COUNTY (KSNT) - Work Crews used explosives this week to break up a hill to make way for highway construction in Geary County. Ashley Perez with the Kansas Department of Transportation told KSNT 27 News about the event that took place Wednesday, March 1 near the intersection of Old Highway 18 [...]
What We’re Tracking Mostly clear skies are expected tonight with relatively mild temperatures. Winds will remain fairly calm with overnight lows taking us into the middle 30s. Saturday morning will bring mostly cloudy skies back into the area with some models hinting at just a brief chance for a few rain drops. Nothing substantial is [...]
TOPEKA (KSNT) - A source with the Topeka Police Department has confirmed that Jim Freel, the former chief of police in Topeka, has died Friday not long after he turned 100-years-old. Rosie Nichols, a spokeswoman for the TPD, told KSNT 27 News that Freel passed away Friday morning. “It was an incredible honor to have [...]