Shawnee County News

A young child suffered burns in an accident at Lake Perry Friday. Shawnee County dispatchers tell us they got a call at 5:30 p.m. from a person taking the child from the lake to the hospital by private vehicle.

Using federal stimulus money, the Shawnee County Commission on Thursday agreed to allow the County Department of Corrections to spend more than $33,500 to begin replacing its surveillance equipment.

A Shawnee County judge ruled Wednesday against prosecutors in saying she will hear from witnesses Thursday in deciding whether charges against a police officer go forward.

It will be several weeks before people know how much money they might get back from Westlawn Memorial Gardens Cemetery.

The Shawnee County District Attorney's office has charged a 52-year-old Topeka man with a sex crime involving a teenager.

A Topeka company will begin charging some overweight and critical care patients more to ride in its ambulances.

One case of the H1N1 swine flu virus has been confirmed in Shawnee County, and 124 cases have been confirmed in Kansas, but Anne Freeze, Shawnee County Health Agency director, told the Shawnee County Commissioners on Monday morning that the threat of H1N1 may be more widespread than the number of the confirmed cases indicates.

The Shawnee County Health Agency has been notified by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment of its first case of H1N1 which involves an adult.

Parts of Shawnee County are without emergency siren coverage. Emergency management director Dave Sterbenz said Friday that he recently learned two sirens on the former Menninger campus were accidentally torn down.

A woman charged with driving the wrong way on Interstate 70 during a head-on wreck that killed another motorist has been sentenced to prison in an unrelated federal embezzlement case, according to federal court records.

Shawnee County sheriff's spokesman Sgt. Jay Simecka says a person who heard about the search called and reported where the girl was and that she was safe.

A Topeka woman will stand trial on charges of having unlawful sexual relations with an inmate while she was in jail in Shawnee County .

Emporia attorney Don C. Krueger has been appointed defense attorney for DeAnna L. Meece, who was charged on Monday with intentional second-degree murder.

A case of the 2009 H1N1 influenza A virus was confirmed late Tuesday afternoon in a Shawnee County adult, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment said.

Shawnee County commissioners Thursday deferred deciding to allow a Kansas River sand-removal project near N.E. Belmont and Kincaid roads after the trust that proposed the project couldn't prove it owned the property.

The Shawnee County Sheriffa s Office will conduct a drunk driving check lane on Saturday from 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. Sunday.

TOPEKA , Kan. -- At least one person received serious injuries in a rollover accident Wednesday night.

Many of the twenty-one people arrested in 'Operation White Pistol' are being held at the Shawnee County Department of Corrections Twenty-one people from across the state of Kansas are behind bars tonight for drug trafficking.

Scott Roeder, the man charged with killing Dr. George Tiller. It was April 1996, just a few days before the one-year anniversary of the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City, when Sgt.

Two Topeka men have been charged by the Shawnee County District Attorney in connection with an alleged 2008 rape.