MANHATTAN (KSNT) – K-State announced that it had suspended two of its Feed the Future Innovation Labs and other international grant projects. According to K-State, stop-work orders for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USDAID) and the U.S. Department of Foreign Agricultural Service were issued in late January. Those orders halted various grant-funded research projects…… MORE
TOPEKA (KSNT) – Women are breaking down barriers in firefighting and proving that saving lives has no gender. The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) reports that only 9% of women are firefighters across the country. Five out of 244 firefighters at the Topeka Fire Department (TFD) are women. The four first women with the TFD…… MORE
TOPEKA (KSNT) – One person is injured after a shooting in Topeka Sunday morning. According to a press release from the Topeka Police Department, at approximately 11:26 a.m., officers responded to the 3100 block of southeast Emerson Street on a report of a shooting. When officers arrived, they found a woman suffering from multiple gunshot…… MORE
SILVER LAKE (KSNT) – The victim in a Saturday, March 15, deadly crash near Silver Lake has been identified as Christopher A. Frye, 19, of Silver Lake. According to a Facebook post from the Silver Lake School District, Frye was a senior at Silver Lake High School. The Shawnee County Sheriff’s Office reports that deputies…… MORE
LAWRENCE (KSNT) – KU baseball is off to a great start this season, and the students have been there every step of the way to cheer them on. With all the success KU baseball has had the past few weeks, the student section is continuing to grow. The excitement of the students and team has…… MORE
SILVER LAKE (KSNT) – One person is dead after a rollover crash near Silver Lake on Saturday. The Shawnee County Sheriff’s Office reports that deputies were called about a rollover crash around 1 p.m. on March 15 near Northwest Hoch Road and Northwest 35th Street in the Silver Lake area. Deputies arriving in the area…… MORE
GOODLAND (KSNT) – State troopers say they are working a multi-vehicle crash with several reported fatalities in western Kansas on Saturday. The Kansas Highway Patrol (KHP) reports in a social media post at 9:46 a.m. on March 15 that both eastbound and westbound I-70 are closed from Goodland to Colby due to a multi-vehicle crash.…… MORE
GOODLAND (KSNT) – State troopers say they are working a multi-vehicle crash with several reported fatalities in western Kansas on Saturday. The Kansas Highway Patrol (KHP) reports in a social media post at 9:46 a.m. on March 15 that both eastbound and westbound I-70 are closed from Goodland to Colby due to a multi-vehicle crash.…… MORE
LAWRENCE (KSNT) – Federal education officials say numerous investigations are being opened against universities across the nation, including in Kansas, for alleged violations of the Title VI Civil Rights Act of 1964. The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) announced on March 14 in a press release that it is investigating 45 universities following the Office…… MORE
LEAVENWORTH, Kan. – Leaders with one government labor union believe the vandalism of a child’s memorial headstone might be a targeted crime. The gravestone is located inside a historic Leavenworth cemetery. The family reported the crime to the VA police. The Sweat family from Leavenworth remembers June 2019 with grief. That’s when James and Jimmie…… MORE
