Meriden News

TOPEKA , Kansas - Wednesday there will be couple areas on K-4 highway to look for slowdowns.

Ita s nearly a 570-mile drive from Topeka to Duluth, Minn. But thata s where a Meriden man reported missing Friday was found that evening.

The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office needs the public's help in finding an elderly man who's been missing since early Friday morning.

A contest to help save endangered animals, asked students nation wide to draw a picture of one of those animals.

One accident sent one man to the hospital with minor injuries. It happened just after 5 p.m. on highway 75, just south of the Topeka city limits.

A federal grand jury has indicted 22 area residents for their alleged roles in three unrelated cases that involved more than $2 million of pseudoephedrine, a prime methamphetamine ingredient.Each indictment, which the grand jury returned on Tuesday, was unsealed today.The first charges were related to the robbery of more than 100 pounds of ...

Jefferson County officials are on the lookout for someone that got into Jefferson West Middle School Monday morning.

Heavy rains that spawned a flash flood warning this evening for parts of Shawnee County and surrounding locations havena t caused problems for Topeka-area streams, county officials said.

A Topeka standing outside her vehicle on a Jefferson County highway was struck by a passing motorist Sunday night, the Kansas Highway Patrol said.

A University of Kansas student from Meriden, Kan. is not letting her battle with cancer prevent her from becoming the first in her family to graduate from college.

The boyhood home of Statehouse muralist John Steuart Curry at Old Jefferson Town in Oskaloosa contains Curry family memorabilia.

The following animals have been brought to the Helping Hands Humane Society, 2625 N.W. Rochester Road.

The sign attracts customers off K-4 highway. Photo 1 of 2 Photo 2 of 2 CAROLYN KABERLINE/SPECIAL TO THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL Lynn Littleton opened Taco Den in Meriden in a former doughnut store with fixtures from a Topeka restaurant that had closed.

It's the world's largest and most advanced scientific instrument. And even though the Large Hadron Collider lies buried underneath the border of France and Switzerland, thousands of miles from Kansas, soon area high school students will have the chance to learn more about its operation and how to analyze the data it yields.

This photo was taken by Janae Rangel, of Tecumseh. Courtesy / Submitted 8 a.m.: Hannah Poitevin at home reading in Paxico with Mill Creek in background.

Two bank executives are among three people facing federal charges of embezzling more than $2 million from a Meriden bank, acting U.S. Attorney Marietta Parker's office said today.

The Kansas Highway Patrol worked three injury automobile accidents Tuesday morning on slippery northeast Kansas roads.

Everyone likes success stories, especially those about local people who climb the ladder and make waves in their chosen field.

Jackson County authorities arrested two Topekans late Wednesday morning in connection with a home burglary that led to a 23-mile car chase covering three counties.

Nearly 30 years ago, Rick Farrant got his start in golf by becoming night water boy for the course at 8533 S.W. 21st.