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Mars Wrigley will celebrate a decade in Topeka with a community event at 6 p.m. Thursday at Evergy Plaza, near 630 S. Kansas Avenue.

Although the UIL Class 5A and 6A state wrestling tournament is more than one month away, and district and regional tournaments coming up in the next few weeks, wrestlers have

Steve Ussery spent the last 30 years as a successful Silicon Valley engineer but has recently seized the opportunity to study one of his biggest passions, jazz music.

In 1982 three teenagers were killed near the shores of Lake Waco in a seemingly inexplicable crime. More than three decades later, the tragic and disturbing case still casts a long, dark shadow.

Hackettstown-based Mars Wrigley invested $175 million into its Topeka, Kan., facility to expand production of its Snickers line and to begin production of Milky War and 3 Musketeers.

Mars Wrigley's expansion will support Snickers, Milky Way and 3 Musketeers production, and create more than 100 jobs in Topeka, KS .

Darlie Routier has been on death row for five years now, always insisting that she didn't kill her sons Devon and Damon. And as her lawyers prepare to head into court yet again, new information about her case raises the possibility that she may have been telling the truth all along.

One deep sleeper of 2020: Novembers Brand New by Honey Made. Chances are the eight-foot scrim in the front window of Waterloo Records didnt register thanks to the graham cracker album art – and maybe just maybe a global pandemic. Inside the CD, producer (Steve Berlin of Los Lobos), engineer (Jim Vollentine), and studio (Texas Treefort) all make the credits roll, yet zero mention appears of the actual group turning soul-infused retro nectar into viscous ear candy. Online, however, behold a no...

It was -- i didnt even want to hear anything like that. >> what you didnt really hear about at the time was the life insurance on darlie, of which darin was the beneficiary. it was $250,000. >> this insurance policy raised questions, even with one of darins own family members. >> this is my nephew. i dont know if darin was involved. i know that that is a big question. everybody has their answer to that. in my heart, i say no. in my head, i have a few questions. >> to answer those questions, sand...

Him into this. i have to admit i wrote back and said, youre the one on death row. you need to think about what youre doing. >> the polygraph wasnt the only revelation about darin. pardo also hired a private investigator who discovered that before the murders, darin suggested hiring someone to rob his house so he can collect insurance money. >> he had come up with a screwball scheme. he already had one insurance scam with a car and got the money for the car. >> in a signed affidavit, darin admitt...