Topeka will host several events to mark Mental Illness Awareness Week.

J&J Gallery Bar held a ribbon cutting and community members decorated traditional Dia de los Muertos items during the First Friday Art Walk.

A retirement ceremony was held for Col. Terry Fritz at the Nickell Armory. He served 32 years in the Kansas National Guard.

The Kansas Koyotes players and their cheerleaders along with Capital City Wellness lead a light workout outside the Statehouse.

Randolph Elementary students performed at an assembly Friday morning as part of the school's Bullying Awareness Week.

Highland Park High School held its Homecoming parade Friday afternoon.

The Division of Vehicles Modernization Task Force will be in charge of examining vehicle systems and procedures around the country, and will make recommendations for how to develop a vehicles system for Kansas that becomes a national model.

The Topeka police are investigating an exchange of gunfire between two vehicles in East Topeka. Meantime, a person who showed up at a hospital with a gunshot wound a short time later has died.

Riley County police say an 82-year-old Manhattan man was the victim of a scam that led him to believe his grandson was in need of money in a foreign country.

A Manhattan man convicted of 21 sex crimes involving young girls wants a new trial due to reported discrepancies in the victims’ testimony.

Kansas residents will decide in November whether to reduce property taxes for boat owners.

The Kansas Supreme Court has upheld a state law imposing a $250,000 cap on damages that can be awarded for pain and suffering in personal injury lawsuits. House Speaker Mike O'Neal says he's pleased by the ruling.

Following controversy over whether the Topeka Zoo elephants should be moved to a sanctuary, one of the two elephants has broken part of her tusk.

Second district Republican incumbent Lynn Jenkins and Democratic challenger Tobias Schlingensiepen met in a debate Thursday night at the Dole Institute of Politics at KU.

The 10-foot-tall bronze sculpture called "Forgiven Man" was stolen from the outside First Congregational Church at SW 17th and Collins.

In a letter to the editor of the Topeka Capital Journal, Hallmark Senior VP Pete Burney wrote no incentives Topeka could have offered would have changed their minds about which two Kansas plants would house consolidated operations.

Reporter and anchor Suzie Gilbert has accepted a position as communications director for the City of Topeka

A hospital spokesperson confirms Stormont-Vail HealthCare and Cotton-O'Neil Clinic are suing to recoup the Medicaid-rate costs of Jesse Dimmick's care.

Interim Labor Secretary Lana Gordon filed a complaint alleging that a manager in office of a former employer verbally abused her because of her age and gender.

The Kansas Supreme Court says it will issue a decision Friday on whether a law limiting non-economic loss damages in civil lawsuits is constitutional.

Students in Geary County and on Fort Riley helped pay tribute to a Junction City family who lost their lives in a plane crash. Thousands of children and educators took part in the event, dedicated to the Bramlage family.

The Kansas Board Of Education race in district 4 is proving to be more than just a division between party lines.

Hills Pet Nutrition received the Corporate Citizens Award during the event, while Jo and Walter McDaniel earned the "Karl and Irene Reuter Award" from Meals on Wheels of Shawnee and Jefferson County.

The Greater Topeka Chamber of Commerce is on its annual inter-city visit. This time the destination is Ft. Collins, CO.

Riley County police arrested two women and a Wichita man at a Manhattan hotel Wednesday in a prostitution sting.