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Topeka is home to the Topeka Warhawks, a collegiate summer baseball team in the Mid-Plains league, which comprises teams from Kansas and neighboring Missouri. The city hosted three now defunct indoor football teams, the Topeka Knights/Kings (1999-2000), the Kansas Koyotes (2003-2014), and the Topeka Tropics (2022-2023).
Front page of the Colored Radical of 1876. Front page of The Negro Star on December 17, 1920, announcing the NAACP's declaration of victory in the Elaine Race Riot cases. This is a list of African American newspapers that have been published in the state of Kansas.
John Alcala (1959- ), Kansas state legislator [92] Carol A. Beier (1958- ), Kansas Supreme Court Justice [93] Robert Coldsnow (1924-2014), Kansas state legislator [94] Robert E. Davis (1939-2010), Kansas Supreme Court Chief Justice [95] Ron Estes (1956- ), 39th Treasurer of Kansas [96] and 4th Congressional District Representative, elected 2017 ...
Joan Wagnon (née Davis; born October 17, 1940) is an American former politician.She was a representative in the Kansas House of Representatives between 1983 and 1995 and the mayor of Topeka, Kansas, between 1997 and 2001.
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Shawnee County is located in northeast Kansas, in the central United States. Its county seat and most populous city is Topeka, the state capital. [4] As of the 2020 census, the population was 178,909, [2] making it the third-most populous county in Kansas.
1858: The Kansas State Record starts publishing. 1873: The Topeka Blade is founded by J. Clarke Swayze. 1879: George W. Reed buys the Blade and changes its name to The Kansas State Journal. 1879: The Topeka Daily Capital is founded by Major J.K. Hudson as an evening paper but changes to morning in 1881.
Kay Eleanor McFarland [1] (July 20, 1935 – August 18, 2015) was a chief justice of the Kansas Supreme Court.She was the first female elected to a judgeship in Shawnee County, Kansas, first appointed to the state supreme court, and first to hold the title of chief justice.