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Ricky R. Washington Jr., 45, of Topeka, was the man killed in Sunday morning’s double shooting in central Topeka, police said Tuesday. Police still weren't making public the name, age or gender ...
Cyrus K. Holliday (1826-1900), first president of Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad; founder of Topeka township John F. Kilmartin (1921-2004), retail executive [ 49 ] Crime
Peg Lautenschlager, 62, American attorney and politician, Attorney General of Wisconsin (2003–2007), member of the Wisconsin State Assembly (1989–1993), breast cancer. [775] Ray Marinko, 82, Australian rules footballer . [776] James McAlister, 66, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles), cancer. [777]
Alonzo Tyree Brooks was born on May 19, 1980, to Billy Brooks Sr. and Maria Ramirez. [2] A native of Topeka, Kansas, Brooks was of African American and Mexican descent. [3] At the time of his disappearance, he was 23 years old and working as a custodian for Countryside Maintenance in Gardner, Kansas.
Heavy tornado damage at Chapman High School on June 12, 2008 (NWS Topeka). On the evening of June 11, 2008, a ½-mile wide tornado swept through Chapman. The tornado moved from the southwest side of town, through the central business district, and then on out of town.
A description of the town from a 1912 volume of Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History is as follows: . Auburn, a money order post office of Shawnee county, is in the township of the same name, about 15 miles (24 km) southwest of Topeka and 8 miles (13 km) west of Wakarusa, which is the nearest railroad station.
At the 2010 census there were 1,151 people in 413 households, including 293 families, in the city. The population density was 1,886.9 inhabitants per square mile (728.5/km 2).
The Ward-Meade house is considered the first mansion built in Topeka. Construction began in 1870, the same year as the first wing of the Statehouse. Anthony Ward was a wheelwright who held the sand rights on the Kansas River near his house. He sold sand to the builders of Topeka and made wheels for wagons that carried settlers to California.