Posted: 9:33 PM The government alleges in a criminal information filed Tuesday that 50-year-old Donald Garst tried to evade currency reporting laws in May 2011 by concealing cash in a DHL shipping box for transport to Topeka.
Posted: 9:31 PM Thieves cut a metal chain to gain access to the lot at Wilson Auction in Salina. Once inside, they cut a 500-foot spool of 4-inch pressurized wire, leaving it damaged beyond repair. The wire was worth $22,500.
Posted: 9:28 PM As part of an agreement with prosecutors, former KBI worker Audry Dukes pleaded no contest Tuesday to two counts of computer crime and two counts theft, while two other computer counts were dropped.
Posted: 9:22 PM Police blame a burglar; 7 stolen works were by Picasso, Matisse, Monet, Gauguin and others. Paintings of "considerable value" were taken, Kunsthal Rotterdam. The collection contains more than 150 works of art.
Posted: 6:24 PM A federal appeals court Tuesday tossed out the conviction of a driver for Osama bin Laden, dealing a blow to the U.S. military commissions system.
Updated: 8:44 PM Riley County police are investigating a drastic spike in bicycle thefts throughout Manhattan, after dozens of pricey bikes have turned up missing.
Posted: 6:04 PM A Manhattan man faces prison time after pleading no contest to attempted murder.
Updated: 6:30 PM Topeka Police are investigating the situation surrounding a shooting victim found inside a car in the 5300 block of SW 10th St.
Posted: 3:59 PM The trial for a man charged in a brutal Topeka home invasion and assault, has been delayed.
Posted: 3:55 PM The mother of a dead infant told a Shawnee County jury on Tuesday that her 7-month-old was active and healthy when she left him with his father.
Posted: 3:43 PM Salim Hamdan was convicted in 2008 of providing material support for terrorism. In a unanimous decision, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit overturned the conviction.
Posted: 6:45 AM A female KU student says she was swinging on a swing set Monday evening when a man with a gun approached her and demanded her things.
Updated: 10:45 PM Some eye-opening numbers from Topeka Police, on the increasing numbers of domestic violence calls in the Capital City. They come as the YWCA launches its 18th annual Week Without Violence.
Updated: 5:25 PM Friends and family gathered to celebrate the life of an accidental homicide victim Monday.
Posted: 9:16 PM Authorities are looking for the suspect or suspects behind a daytime breakin Friday at a home in the 8400 block of Junietta Road in Manhattan.
Posted: 8:40 PM Francesco Schettino is accused of manslaughter, abandoning ship, causing shipwreck in the Costa Concordia disaster last January. A judge will decide what's admissible at a trial; three others being investigated are in court. 32 died in the coastal shipwreck.
Posted: 6:01 PM Joshua Priest briefly apologized at his hearing Monday in federal court in Wichita. The former Fort Riley private pleaded guilty in July to conspiracy to commit marriage fraud and wire fraud.
Posted: 4:24 PM 52-year-old Robert Telthorst faces one count of wire fraud and one count of money laundering.
Updated: 6:06 PM The Federal Bureau of Prisons arrived Thursday to take the prisoners away.
Posted: 10:40 PM Police say Elizabeth Escalona attacked two-year-old Jocelyn Cedillo because of potty training problems. The 23-year-old pleaded guilty in July to felony injury to a child.
Updated: 10:19 PM Two people are held in the shooting of Malala Yousufzai. The Taliban said it warned the girl to stop advocating for better educational opportunites for girls, and put out a hit squad to stop the teen's protest.
Posted: 9:22 PM A U.S. Secret Service agent was found passed out on the Miami sidewalk early Friday morning after President Barack Obama had left South Florida.
