10-year-old amputee defying obstacles and breaking records
A 10-year-old amputee is defying odds as a track star and now she's about to compete at the national level.
A 10-year-old amputee is defying odds as a track star and now she's about to compete at the national level.
TOPEKA (KSNT) - The Combat Air Museum hosted a very historic World War II aircraft on Monday. That’s All, Brother", a C-47A Skytrain troop transport that led the Allied Airborne Invasion over Normandy, D-Day, June 6th, 1944 made a stop in Topeka on Monday. The C-47A got it's name from its D-Day crew as a [...]
NORTHEAST KANSAS (KSNT)- Sunday's edition of K-Nation was filled with football, basketball, softball and more. K-Nation started with breaking down where KU and K-State landed in the preseason Big 12 media polls. Both the Jayhawks and Wildcats had four preseason all-conference members, along with special awards. KU softball pitcher Kasey Hamilton met with K-Nation's Lainey [...]
What We’re Tracking We are watching a complex of storms that look to make through way through the state tonight into Tuesday. They may get close to our northern and western counties, but most models have them fizzling out before they arrive. Temperatures in the overnight hours will be in the lower 70s making it [...]
Chiefs fan "ChiefsAholic" was arrested in California and is accused of robbing multiple Midwest banks and laundering money through casinos.
TOPEKA (KSNT) - Long-overdue improvements to a local airport will bring it into the 21st century. KSNT 27 News spoke with Eric Johnson, airport president/director of airports with the Metropolitan Topeka Airport Authority (MTAA), about what will be changing at Phillip Billard Airport in the near future. Plans laid out by the MTAA show that [...]
EMPOIRA (KSNT) - After an anonymous quarter-million-dollar donation and subsequent leasing issues, plans to build a renovated skate park in Emporia were moved to a new location. In 2021, 13-year-old Maddox Gutierrez started a petition to improve the Santa Fe Skate Park in Emporia. After the anonymous donation, the project ran into an issue: BNSF [...]
TOPEKA (KSNT) - Floyd Bledsoe, a Kansas man who spent 15 years in prison for a rape and murder he did not commit, is requesting $24 million to $48 million in compensatory damages from the four remaining defendants in a lawsuit he is pursuing. According to a pre-trial order issued Thursday, Bledsoe is also requesting [...]
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A state-court judge on Monday ordered Kansas to stop allowing transgender people to change the listing for their sex on their driver’s licenses, ahead of the first hearing in a lawsuit filed by state’s Republican attorney general against the practice. District Judge Teresa Watson issued the order three days after Attorney [...]
SALINA (KSNT) - A Cheney County contractor is facing $334k in penalties after a worker was buried in a 9-foot-deep trench while working on a plumbing line in Salina. In January, an employee of Precision Plumbing LLC was buried under dirt and rocks when a trench wall collapsed. The company foreman attempted to dig the [...]
TOPEKA (KSNT) - Jennifer LeClair with the Boys & Girls Clubs of Topeka joined the KSNT 27 News morning show to remind people that registration opens today for the 2023-24 school year. Parents can get their kids signed up for the Boys & Girls Club starting at 8:30 a.m. on Monday, July 10. If you [...]
LABETTE COUNTY (KSNT) - A 14-year-old was arrested for first-degree murder in connection to a shooting that killed a 74-year-old from Cherryvale, KS. At 1:30 p.m. on Friday, July 7, the Labette County Sheriff's Office (LCSO) responded to reports of a shooting in the 21000 block Douglas Road. Deputies found Thaine Lee Anderson had suffered [...]
TOPEKA (KSNT) – The Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) has released the 2022 Kansas Crime Index Report. The report compiles crime statistics reported to the KBI by state and local law enforcement agencies throughout Kansas. Violent crime analysis The 2022 Kansas Crime Index Report indicated that violent crime in Kansas decreased by 4.3% from 2021, showing declines in each [...]
The Kansas City Royals took their first college player in the 2023 MLB Draft.
Today will be a bit warmer than what we've been enjoying over the last few days as our winds shift back toward the south. They'll be relatively light, but will be enough to warm things back up to more seasonal level this afternoon. Highs are expected to make it into the lower 90s. We are [...]
LINCOLN COUNTY (KSNT) - On Sunday, a 34-year-old man was seriously injured after hitting a Volvo semi-truck on I-70 about 10 miles west of Salina. At 8:25 p.m., the 34-year-old was driving a Mitsubishi Mirage West on I-70. The driver of the Mitsubishi hit the trailer pulled by the Volvo semi-truck, according to Kansas Highway [...]
GOODYEAR, Ariz. (KSNT)- KU football has 15 commitments locked in for the Class of 2024. Three of those future Jayhawks come from the same high school in Arizona. Aundre Gibson, DeShawn Warner and Jonathan Kamara are all entering their senior year at Desert Edge High School, in Goodyear, Arizona. They're all three-star prospects. Warner plays [...]
TOPEKA (KSNT) - A major local concert series is returning in less than a week, and setup crews are already hard at work. In just a few days, thousands of people will head through the gates of Heartland Motorsports Park, home of Country Stampede. On Sunday, crews began preparing nearly 400 acres of space for [...]
EMPORIA (KSNT)- Emporia's head firework operator has retired after nearly two decades. Bernie Toso, a building inspector for Emporia, took over as the top firework technician in 2005 when his volunteer group, Flint Hills Optimist, took on the firework show as a community project. After the volunteer group abandoned the show, Bernie made sure it [...]
TOPEKA (KSNT) - Drivers in Topeka could expect some delays on the morning commute to work on Monday. Weather permitting, a multi-bridge project is set to begin to repair I-470 from approximately 29th Street to Burlingame road. During the repair, east and westbound I-470 will be reduced to one lane and speed in work zones [...]
The Kansas City Royals have another catcher in the pipeline.
TOPEKA (KSNT) – Motorists traveling across Kansas will now see increased traffic safety messaging and new signage on four particular stretches of highway. One of those stretches extends from St. Marys to Manhattan in Pottawatomie County. The Safety Corridor Pilot Program is a five-year initiative to reduce fatalities and seriousinjuries. Increased law enforcement, traffic safety education [...]