Riley County police say a Good Samaritan intervened when a woman’s car was broken into and stopped the suspect from getting off with her purse.

Police are looking for suspects after $16,000 worth of goods were stolen from a business in downtown Topeka.

32-year-old Peter DeAngelo Brooks III told police he was vacuuming out his car around 5:30 pm in the 4000 block of S. Topeka Boulevard, when someone came up and shot him.

The ATF's Kansas City Field Office Division is offering a $2500 reward for information leading to the arrest of those behind more than a dozen small fires set inside or near apartment complexes.

Police are trying to track down the man who was spotted revealing his private parts in a Manhattan neighborhood.

Police have identified a person of interest in an early morning stabbing investigation at a Topeka apartment Wednesday.

Investigators are not ruling out any possible motives in the killing of Maria Santos Gorrostieta, said the Mexican state's deputy attorney general. She was hailed for her bravery, but was found dead last week.

Topeka Police were called just before 1 pm Tuesday to a burglary in progress in the 2800 block of SW Mulvane. A witness told police three people left a residence carrying stereo equipment and electronics.

Topeka Police say burglars broke out a window at The Office Lounge, near 8th and Jackson, sometime between Sunday night and Monday morning. An unrelated home burglary call Monday led them to the suspects.

A Topeka man charged with killing his wife told several people he suspected she was having an affair with a police officer, according to witness testimony Tuesday.

Howard Wayne Taylor, Jr., 33, was sentenced to more than five years in federal prison on a crack cocaine charge.

Timothy Whittington admitted Monday that he left the Grossman Community Corrections Center in Leavenworth on July 19 and reported to work at a convenience store in Kansas City, Kan. He never went back to the halfway house.

Emporia officials have received ten reports of counterfeit currency in the city during the month of November.

A trial date has been set for the suspect in a deadly shooting in Manhattan that claimed the life of a Kansas National Guardsman.

A Topeka man has been sentenced to 33 years in federal prison without parole in the fatal shooting of a liquor store clerk on Christmas Eve 2011, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said Monday.

A Manhattan man has been identified as the gunman police say robbed several Kansas State University students at gunpoint during a home invasion and shot one of the victims in the process. This is not the first time the suspect has been connected to a violent crime.

Kansas State University police say homeless man was caught breaking into a building on campus on Thanksgiving Day.

Tensions flared at a trailer park north of Manhattan when officers responded to a domestic call Sunday afternoon, resulting in a standoff that lasted several hours.

Two people received non-life threatening injuries from a shooting early Sunday Morning.

Half of the 18 injured are firefighters, 4 are gas company workers, the mayor says. The explosion leveled the building housing the strip club Club Scores, with damage to at least 25 buildings. (Photo from WWLP.)

Walker was booked into Shawnee County jail in connection with aggravated robbery and area bench warrants.

A person called police Wednesday night and said they were holding a man at gunpoint in the parking lot of Family Dollar, because he attempted to rob the store.

An 85-year-old Manhattan woman was not injured when she came face-to-face with a man who had broken into her house and was stealing her belongings.

Connie Edwards, 60, Ottawa, Kan., pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute prescription drugs.

After several days of searching for a little boy taken from his Manhattan home by his mother, police revealed late Wednesday that the child was found at a home in Topeka.