3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (177+ words) Topeka police investigating a double homicide committed late Sept. 10 in North Topeka's NOTO Arts District announced Sept. 11 they'd identified and located a man they had said was a person of interest in the case. Police weren't making public the man's…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (481+ words) Dana Chandler's interrogating herself in court is among five unusual things that have happened in 15 years of continuing double murder proceedings against her. Chandler since 2011 has fought charges linked to the July 2002 cold-case killings in Topeka of her former husband,…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (76+ words) The Topeka Capital-Journal Man serving time for 2024 Topeka homicide dies in prison A man serving prison time for a 2024 Topeka homicide was found dead Sept. 8 in his cell at El Dorado Correctional Facility. Eddie Holmes Jr., 67, died after being found…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (40+ words) A Topeka police SWAT team took a man into custody in downtown Topeka on Sept. 3, 2026, after a standoff where pops could be heard and what appeared to be smoke. Pops and smoke before police arrest in downtown Topeka...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (119+ words) Police are investigating the death of a woman in central Topeka. The Topeka Police Department responded at around 7:29 p.m. Sept. 2 to a report of a death in the 600 block of SW Tyler Street. That's just west of downtown, near SW 6th and…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (784+ words) Former Kansas Corrections Secretary Roger Werholtz has several reasons why he thinks the state should abolish the death penalty. Werholtz, who served as secretary from 2002 to 2010 and returned on an interim basis in 2019, uses his discussions with peers and family…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (548+ words) I spent my career working in corrections. For nearly three decades, I worked for the Kansas Department of Corrections (KDOC), the final eight of which I served as secretary of corrections. After retiring, I also served for periods as the…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (29+ words) The Topeka Capital-Journal Kansas secretary of state makes comments on Supreme Court 3-day grace period measure...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (59+ words) The Topeka Capital-Journal Man arrested in Topeka shooting death of Joshua Stockman Police have arrested a man in connection with the Aug. 22 southeast Topeka shooting death of Joshua A. Stockman, 18, of Topeka. Taken into custody was Erwin T. Lockridge Jr., 23, of Topeka,…...

2+ week, 19+ hour ago   (314+ words) Damian Lee Lewis was sentenced Aug. 27 to life in prison with no possibility of parole for 51 years, eight months, for a gunshot murder committed in North Topeka. Shawnee County District Judge Bill Ossman passed sentence upon Lewis, 31, whom a Shawnee…...