Tim Hrenchir

Shawnee County voters will be asked Tuesday if they wish to retain 18 Kansas Court of Appeals and Shawnee County District Court judges.

Five of the 10 seats on the Kansas Board of Education will be up for a vote in Tuesday's statewide election.

Welcome to Election Day in Topeka, Kansas! Follow along as residents head to the polls and election results come in this evening.

Amber Peery, convicted in the Kansas Turnpike crash deaths of three Girl Scouts, has asked that she be sentenced to probation, in part because mental health problems she is experiencing can be treated more effectively outside prison.

A historic steam locomotive became a "beloved icon" after being placed in 1956 standing parallel to S.W. Topeka Boulevard near an entrance to what was formerly the Kansas Free Fair Grounds in Topeka, said Brett Perry.

Ricky R. Washington Jr., 45, of Topeka, was the man killed in Sunday morning’s double shooting in central Topeka, police said Tuesday.

A 31-year-old woman was arrested Thursday in connection with crimes linked to the Oct. 6 death of a man in a fire at a house in central Topeka.

Shawnee County Sheriff Brian C. Hill asked the public for help Friday locating Summer Dawn Shea, 44, of Tecumseh, whom he said was "missing and endangered."

A judge refused Friday to honor a plea agreement that would have enabled a Topeka woman to avoid jail time on convictions for animal cruelty.

The deaths last week of a man and a woman in the 700 block of S.W. Polk are being investigated by Topeka police as a homicide/suicide.