Shawnee County News

Shawnee County Sheriff's Deputies will be out late Friday. The Sheriffa s Office will have extra personnel on the roads conducting a DUI / Saturation Patrol.

Fire and medical responders from Soldier Township assist authorities Wednesday at the scene of a two-vehicle accident at N.E. 39th and K-4 highway where one person received possible injuries.

A Topeka woman put on probation for sexually abusing a 13-year-old boy in Topeka is being extradicted to New Mexico.

The second of Shawnee County's four pbulic H1N1 vaccination clinics is set for Thursday, November 5th at the Kansas Expocentre.

The line wound up a hill and down the sidewalk, those at the end so far back, they couldn't see the doors of the Riley County Health Agency.

The former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is the keynote speaker at the Veterans Expo in Topeka.

Two more H1N1 influenza deaths have been reported in Kansas, it was announced Monday.

For five hours, they stood in the rain. People living in Shawnee County, some with existing health conditions, stood in a long line for the county's first doses of the H1N1 vaccine.

A Topeka man was booked into the Shawnee County Department of Corrections Friday after he reportedly fired a handgun into the air at Jeremiah Bullfrogs.

Brian Dean Wilson told a Shawnee County District Court judge Wednesday he was only trying to stop a very intoxicated friend from driving away from a bar when things got out of hand.

Shawnee County is taking steps to stop one planned memorial for murder victim Gerald Eberhardt.

Shawnee County District Attorney Chad Taylor on Wednesday filed an additional charge of solicitation of first-degree murder against 43-year-old Michelle L. Eberhardt of Tecumseh.

Topeka, Kan. _ The first round of the swine flu vaccine is set to be given out Thursday at the Kansas Expocentre from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. 1,400 doses of the vaccine will be given out.

The remains of two bodies were found just east of Ogden in Riley County. Autopsy results on the human remains found in Riley County Sunday afteroon could come as soon as Thursday.

Three people were arrested in the shooting death of a man early Sunday in his home southeast of Topeka, including a woman and man who shared the same address.

The bodies of of a woman and a small child were discovered in a shallow grave in Riley County, police said Tuesday.

Shawnee County is ready to offer its first public H1N1 vaccinations, but only to people who meet certain criteria.

A Tecumseh woman, her teenage son and his girlfriend have been charged in the shooting death of the woman's husband in their home.

Shawnee County sheriff's officials are investigating what they are calling a "suspicious" shooting death that occurred early Sunday southeast of Topeka.

A northeast Topeka man was accidentally shot in the leg Friday while practicing shooting with his grandson.